Do we ever really think much about our desk lamps ? Well, we should. As I write this post I’m taking a moment to silently thank my trusty desk lamp that gets me through the day and throughout the darkness of night. Desk lamps are essential and are very versatile. Investing in a good desk lamp is...

Daylight saving time officially ends this Sunday, November 6th, at 2 am, so remember to set your clocks back one hour (fall back) when you go to bed Saturday night. Since we'll all be in the dark more with the coming of shorter days and shorter daylight hours in the evening, here are a few tips to...

Have a lot of recessed lighting in your home? It's time for a style update that will give you better lighting and save you money at the same time. Cree's LED retrofit lamps offer a soft white downlight and use a mere 10.5 watts of power, but they deliver the same amount of light as a 60 watt...

Introducing the brand new Softech DL 90 Desk Lamp . It uses high-tech LEDs to produce the full spectrum of visible light. This desk lamp is environmentally friendly and will last ten times longer than a fluorescent bulb using only 10 watts of power. One on my favorite features is the USB power port which...

If you had any doubt that LED lighting is the wave of the future, here are three new products that should convince you. Each combines elegant design with new LED technology to produce simple and elegant lighting solutions. The first two photos are of the Modern Angle LED Desk Lamp . The slim profile...

For those too old to remember, or for those who didn't pay attention in history class, Sputnik was the first orbiting satellite, launched way back in 1957. At the time, it helped spawn a surge in space-age design, from car fins to boomerang architecture and starburst chandeliers. That retro-classic...

LED light bulbs offer some great advantages - such as they'll last for decades, and are super energy efficient. In most cases, however, they aren't dimmable. Enter the Pharox 300 LED light bulb . It's dimmable via most standard wall and line dimmers, a big advantageg compared with other LED...

Finally ... someone figured out how to control colorful LED lights with a cell phone! A company called MEA Mobile has created the iGloLEDset which, besides being a mouthful to say, is a pretty cool piece of engineering. Multicolor LED light strips up to 50 feet long can be controlled by computer via...

Finding the perfect Christmas gift for dad is always a challenge. But it doesn't have to be that way. Here are some of the best holiday gifts for dad that will make him happy! Up above is the Z Bar Red LED Desk Lamp (also available in black ). Dad may not be as flexible as this lamp, but he'll...

Happy Thursday to you all! LED lights continue to be used by lighting designers in the most innovative and inventive ways. Here are three new LED light designs out this year that grabbed my attention. Up above is the Lanterna LED Lamp . The lamp is powered by a rechargeable battery in the base, and it...

The Philips LED Lumiware Flower Vase is a cool new design that will display your favorite flowers and put on a light show at the same time. It's not really from the future, but it feels like it! The vase has clear sides with built-in LEDs in the bottom. The LEDs can be set to one glowing color or...

The Light-It! LED Light is a really neat LED design you'll find plenty of uses for. Powered by four C-type batteries, it's weatherproof, has an adjustable lamp head, and has long-lasting, energy efficient LEDs. The clever design also has a built-in, motion-activated on-off feature, making it...

College football is in swing, the NFL season just started, so football is back! And with football comes tailgating, of course. Here are a couple of cool LED lights that will come in handy as you fire up the grill and gather with friends and family at your next tailgate party. Anything battery powered...

It may look like a scene from the classic video game Space Invaders, but it's really a mini laser star projector. What appears in the photo to be the little aliens from the arcade game is really a matrix of more than five hundred red and green star dots. The projector also does single red or green...

I'm definitely digging this desk light design which features track lighting technology. The head attaches magnetically anywhere on the length of the pole making it infinitely adjustable. Three LED bulbs in the bullet head offer bright light and energy efficient operation. This desk lamp only uses...

The banker's style desk lamp is a classic of form and function. It's been a mainstay in banks, offices and public buildings for a century or more. Now it gets a high-tech makeover! This new design, the LED Banker's Desk Lamp , comes with energy efficient, long-lasting LEDs. It has the same...

Here's another roundup of articles and links for you to sample. Read a press release at Forbes.com about the new LAMPS PLUS warehouse management system. We're state-of-the-art! "Within months of implementing...overall accuracy rates jumped to between 98 and 99.8 percent as nearly all manual...

LEDs are being used in a wide variety of products and product settings. Here are a few clever work light designs from our product lab that caught my eye. Book lights have been using LEDs for quite some time. The flowing lines and orgainc pod shape of the white LED clip-on book light (see above) make...

Here's another batch of good reads from our team to you. Enjoy! CBS News story "The Changing Shape of Light" details how new lighting technology such as LED bulbs and even newer OLEDs are being developed to replace the old incandescent light bulb . Blog Apartment Therapy included our outdoor...

The current issue of the Better Homes and Gardens "Ideas for Your Home Remodel" has a feature on eco-friendly solar lights and LED landscape lighting . As one of their best buys, they picked our Copper Solar LED Landscape Light , saying, "Love It: This solar-powered LED light's installation...