Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. In 1880, Thomas Edison patented a lightbulb made from a glass tube ...

Don’t just recycle that old plastic bottle — turn it into a lantern. At least, that’s what the folks over at Liter of Light are doing. The organization is helping developing communities the world over ...

Turner hand made over a thousand unique LED plastic bottle flowers for the tree light installation. Each plastic bottle was sandblasted to create a white frosted appearance, cut up, and sculpted into ...

Architect and designer Margot Krasojević shows off the beautiful possibilities of 3D printing in her latest work, the Lace LED. Made from recycled post-consumer plastics, the LED light diffuser gets ...

A team of material scientists from Wake Forest University in North Carolina have developed plastic light bulbs that are shatter-proof, flicker-free, and seem to last forever. Furthermore, these ...

At long last, Cree is capitalizing on the phase-out of incandescent bulbs by releasing a new low-price ($8) LED bulb that, near as dammit, has the same silhouette as the standard A19 incandescent bulb ...

In somewhat of a departure from its usual parametric, experimental work, Margot Krasojević Architects has created a recycled, 3D printed LED light, in an investigation of the importance of ...