The New Bulbs
August 26, 2009
We all know what a bulb looks like. It’s a roundish thing, with lots of coiled up metal in the middle. If you shake it too hard, it breaks. On one end is the place the bulb plugs or screws in. This is the bulb form factor we have all grown up with.
Which makes this picture very interesting because it too is a bulb, but not as any of us have ever seen before. There is no glass. There is no delicate filament precariously hanging from a post. The colored squares and triangles at the center of the image are what creates the light. A circuit board, essentially, is generating light. And in no small quantity either. VLs new mover, the VLX Wash, utilizes this new lamp system essentially replacing the VL 2500 Wash. There are problems, like dimming, but it shows LEDs are beginning to play serious ball.
This picture blows me away. I think we’re staring down a tube into the future. If I were a lamp manufacture, I’d start diversifying my product line.
