Efficient Light Bulb From LUXIM Corp

Posted on 04 April 2008

LIFI Entertainment Light BulbEfficiency seems to be the key word in the quest for developing new and better technologies. LUXIM Corp. is the proud developer of a new lighting system called LIFI Entertainment. This futuristic system consists of an pill-sized emitter without any electrodes attached and the energy is sent via a concentrated electric field which produces about 12,000 lumens.

Luxim’s tiny light bulb produces about 140 lumens per watt which makes it 10 times better than conventional light. The system has a Color Rendering Index of 91 and according to its developers, the lifetime is about 20,000 hours. Also they said that their LIFI Entertainment lasts 7 times longer than the traditional HID lamps and are safer because they don’t explode or chip away.

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