Customized home lighting used to mean a dimmer switch. Today, smart light bulbs let you control colors, sync to music, fade at bedtime or even choose white light to suit your mood—from warm amber ...

You can only imagine my surprise to discover that it’s well-nigh impossible to obtain the R20 XL bulbs that I need for my outside floods. What is a poor boy to do? We purchased our current house about ...

Create planters, vases, and terrariums to add a touch of nature to your home. Display your creativity by making and decorating holiday ornaments or salt and pepper shakers. Transform light bulbs into ...

It’s a mystery to us how a light bulb came to symbolize a bright idea, because they’ve produced only dim-bulb thinking in Washington lately. Light bulb manufacturers are okay with the switch (it’s ...

The food pantry at Kansas City’s Metro Lutheran Ministry is offering food and a little light. The pantry offers clients, who visit once a month, enough food to feed themselves and their families. It ...

The ubiquitous but highly inefficient 60-watt light bulb is in dire need of a makeover. And it could be worth millions in government prize money — and more in government contracts — to the first ...

Now here´s yet another example of how LEDs simply put incandescent bulbs to shame. This wooden light bulb was created using an ancient carving technique known as Rokuro, in which a layer of wood is ...

Consumers spend billions on mattresses and pillows in their quest for a decent night’s sleep. So Scott Almquist figures we’ll gladly spring for a few new light bulbs. Almquist is chief executive of ...

The smartphone we all carry every day is arguably the most important invention of all time. It has enabled 2 billion people to gain instant access to artificial intelligence, as well as hundreds of ...

A light bulb might seem like an unlikely platform for gaming, but we’re living in the future now, so anything is possible. And with enough know-how, it turns out that an RGB light bulb can indeed be ...

Credit typically goes to inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Edison. But the actual story is more complicated and interesting.