Interesting: a light bulb with built in speaker:

sonhouse

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15 Aug 14

sonhouse

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15 Aug 14

http://phys.org/news/2014-08-unleashed-lightfreq-built-in-audio.html

wolfgang59

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25 Aug 14

Originally posted by sonhouse
http://phys.org/news/2014-08-unleashed-lightfreq-built-in-audio.html

Pity it's CFL technology.
I don't suppose LEDs have the same colour range?

sonhouse

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25 Aug 14

Originally posted by wolfgang59
Pity it's CFL technology.
I don't suppose LEDs have the same colour range?

A close read says it is 5 mm longer than a CFL, the only way it could get various colors is if it is LED. It says it lasts 40,000 hours and no CFL lasts that long, it has to be LED's.

wolfgang59

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25 Aug 14

Originally posted by sonhouse
A close read says it is 5 mm longer than a CFL, the only way it could get various colors is if it is LED. It says it lasts 40,000 hours and no CFL lasts that long, it has to be LED's.

I see.
The phrase "no longer than a standard CFL" threw me - kinda implied it
was a non-standard CFL.

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26 Aug 14

Originally posted by wolfgang59
I see.
The phrase "no longer than a standard CFL" threw me - kinda implied it
was a non-standard CFL.

If you go to the kickstarter page, it specifies that there are RGB LEDs in it.

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27 Aug 14

Originally posted by forkedknight
If you go to the kickstarter page, it specifies that there are RGB LEDs in it.

Yep, it would be very awkward to develop multi colored CFL's, they are just too big to fit in that kind of form factor. I never saw a single CFL that could change color.