Available for Pre-Order,NEW Sylvania LIFX Wifi Lamp that will last you 27 Years!

The Smart Phone Controlled Wifi lamp is getting more and more popular with more brands getting their version out on the market. Here at The Led Specialist, we are liking the new addition to the competition. 

The LIFX is a wifi enabled, multi-coloured, energy efficient LED lamp that you can control using your smartphone. This new lamp has come to be through the new and fashionable way of raising funds for startup businesses, crowdfunding. Using the Kickstarter site LIFX raised $1.3m in only six days. It soon became clear that there was real demand for this product in the market. Since being on Kickstarter, LIFX has received a lot of media attention and has been highlighted in such newspapers as the New York Times, Washington Post and The Economist amongst others. It is now being regarded as one of the best new smart home devices and is extremely desirable. 

Inventor, Phil Bosua and his passionate team of developers, engineers, markerting and customer support staff aim to deliver the top of the class in the smart bulb experience and it certainly looks like LIFX is a contender to outshine the others. The team claim that ' LIFX is like going from black and white television to full-colour HD' with a whopping '16 million colours at your fingertips.' It is impressive without a doubt. 

Aswell as the ability to change the colour of your lamps to what seems like every imaginable colour, a simple app update will allow you to wake up naturally each morning with an automatically increasing light and help ease you into blissful sleep with a feature that slowly dims. In addition to the aesthetic and holistic advantages of this lamp, it is also amazingly simple to install; available in traditional bayonet (BC) and edison screw (ES) caps, LIFX can be installed into existing fittings with no need to hire an electrician. LIFX also has a lifetime of up to 40,000 hours, which means if it is in use for 4 hours a day, it will last you a staggering 27 years! 

Take a look at the video and see for yourself at http://www.havells-sylvania.com/lifx/  or go to our website to pre order :http://theledspecialist.co.uk/led-light-bulbs.html?product_brand=18

Philips Light Up The Festival of Lights

Philips Colour Kinetics LED connected lighting transforms the banks of the River Rhone.

Philips Lighting collaborated with French artist Severine Fontaine, to create the centre piece for the 2014, Lyon Festival of Light. The world famous Festival of Lights in Lyon, France is the world's principal creative lighting display event. This year the show ran from the 5th-8th December.  

The six minute, centrepiece show, spanned 80 metres of the River Rhone's banks. The phenomenal centrepiece, named "Incandescence" celebrated the importance of light in human development. 

"Incandescence" took six years to create, it featured nine illuminated domes, shaped like incandescent light bulbs.Each dome was the size of a small family car. The six minute show explored the symbiotic relationship between the human race and light. The iconic incandescent light bulb was used to represent the historic relationship between humans and artificial light, exemplifying it's often forgotten impact on human development. 

"Incandescence's" co-creator, Severine Fontaine said: "I chose to work with Philips, which is a prestigious partner, providing high-quality and high-tech products that enable spectacular light effects. The Philips technology allowed me to explore and create emotion, working light with great delicacy as if it were a musical score. Philips provided more than just products, the team also bought passion that allowed me to realize my concept and light scenario in optimal condition for the artistic quality of the art work."

Wembley Stadium Arch Illuminated With Colour Changing LEDs.

Thorn Lighting has rejuvenated the lighting on the arch of Wembley Stadium with a colour-changing LED lighting system in order to provide intense colours and moving light effects.

The new system has been designed for Wembley Stadium sponsor and digital communications company, EE and will be visible on the London Skyline. The lighting system can be programmed to change colours for national holidays, football matches and other special events.

Managing director of Wembley National Stadium, Roger Maslin, said "We can now use the arch to make big, bold and entertaining statements which can be seen right across London. With so many lighting scenes the possibilities are fantastic. From the St George's Cross and team colours to highlight goals for big games, to solid and moving colours for event lighting, to the corporate colours of our sponsor EE and charity partners, the lighting is transformational and exciting." Maslin is certainly thrilled with this exciting new venture, which is sure to make an outstanding impact on the illumination of the stadium.

Senior lighting designer at Thorn Lighting, Pat Holley, who created the lighting design scheme commented that, "The arch's lighting system consists of a dynamic floodlight with red, green, blue and white LED chips. Fifty per cent of the LED chips are white and the remaining are equal quantities of red,green and blue." Thorn also designed and created a custom bracket to allow the existing fittings to be used which sped up the entire process significantly.

Kevin Stubbs, UK technical manager, reported that, "Importantly, Wembley wanted the new 'whiter' LED white to match the white achieved with the old metal halide system. We therefore had to tune the LED white to achieve this consistency."

The Arch itself is the longest single span roof structure in the world, standing at 133, tall with a span of 315m and a diameter of 7.4m. It is so large that it could fit the London Eye beneath it and can be seen from as far as 13 miles away on a clear evening, so look out for those colours in the London skyline!