Light That’s More Efficient Than An LED and Hot As The Sun

A tiny little pill sized light bulb from the folks at Luxim, emits ’sun spectrum light’ and at the core of the bulb radiates the same heat level, 6,000 Calvin. That’s 140 lumens per watt - 15 lumens per watt for a regular light bulb and 70 for an LED - and converts most of its energy into actual light, unlike most lights which convert it into heat. How does it accomplish this feat? $40 million in VC funding of course.

LIFI leads a new class of solid-state high-intensity light sources that combine the best features of solid-state electronics and full spectrum plasma emitters.  The results are long-life, energy efficiency and complete color spectrum for lighting applications like general and specialty lighting and projection displays like wide screen HDTVs and projectors.
 

Applications include medical and analytical instrument lighting

LUXIM's LIFI^™ technology provides superior performance for high definition projection televisions and home theater projectors using DLP^™, transmissive LCD and LCoS microdisplay technologies.

Specialty lighting includes LIFI applications like medical and analytical instrument lighting.  Endoscopy, microscopy and other equipment are made possible with the highest level of color rendering available from a long life light source.

LIFI brings together the best qualities of solid state electronics and plasma based emitters in a high intensity light source capable of more than 140 lumens per watt.  This efficacy combined with 20,000 lumen output per source make LIFI ideal for applications in entertainment, industrial, architectural, area and street lighting.