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Fast and Luminous: These Lights are So Bright, They Could Show You the Quickest Way Around Town

April 21, 2015
For every showing of “A Streetcar Named Desire” in a big city, there’s a street packed with traffic on the way to the theater. Let’s face it, large urban centers may have culture and opportunity on their side, but they come with irksome baggage like congestion, air pollution and the lack of parking.
That baggage is getting heavier. Although half of the world’s population already lives in cities, the U.N. estimates that the number will spill over the 50 percent mark and hit 5 billion by 2030.
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Seeking New Edisons: STEM Scholarship Will Boost Innovation in Ohio

March 09, 2015
America’s high school graduation rate is at its highest point in four decades – three out of four students now get a diploma. But in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) in Ohio, Thomas Edison’s home state, the numbers remain grim: just 60 percent of students graduate.
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Between You, Me and the Intelligent Lamp Post: City Streets Have Never Been This Smart

February 03, 2015

It’s the afternoon rush hour just outside central London and the traffic is nose to tail. Drivers here have come to expect the sight of taillights as far as they can see. One section of road, a stretch of the A3 close to Heathrow Airport, has been named Britain’s most congested road and has holdups totaling 91 hours during the afternoon rush each year. 

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The Future of Agriculture? Indoor Farms Powered by LEDs

December 19, 2014

A warehouse full of lettuce might not be the first place you would expect to find the next Industrial Revolution. But follow the LED lights and you’ll discover a glimpse of the future of agriculture — industrial-scale, indoor farming.

Advances in LED technology are helping to create an environment where vegetables can be produced at scale, with higher yields and shorter grow cycles, no matter what climate.

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This Discovery Will Make You See Red

November 17, 2014
Who invented the color red? Well, nobody of course. But in another sense, you might say that Nick Holonyak did in the modern era, when he created the red LED at GE’s labs in 1962. Now, materials scientist Anant Setlur has reinvented the color. Working with a team of researchers at GE Lighting and in Europe, Setlur found and patented a way leading to the perfect red light.
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Lettuce See the Future: LED Lighting Helps Farming Go High-Tech In Japan

July 10, 2014
Humans have spent the last 10,000 years mastering agriculture. But a freak summer storm or bad drought can still mar many a well-planted harvest. Not anymore, says Japanese plant physiologist Shigeharu Shimamura, who has moved industrial-scale farming indoors thanks to special LED lights developed by GE.
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These Lights Will Make Les Bleus Look Blue and the Canarinho Look Canary

July 04, 2014
When soccer teams from Brazil and Croatia ran out on the pitch in São Paulo on June 12, they kicked off one of the biggest sporting events in history. The cumulative television audience for the world’s largest soccer tournament is estimated to top 3 billion - nearly half of the planet’s population.
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The Smartest Bulb in the Box Will Talk to Your Smartphone. It's Affordable, Too!

June 27, 2014

More than a century after Thomas Edison got into the light bulb business, his bright idea is getting brainy.

Engineers at GE, the company Edison founded, have helped develop an affordable LED light bulb that can talk to its owners’ tablets and smartphones. The bulb, which starts at just under $15, contains a chip that can wirelessly connect to the Internet and communicate with users via a mobile app called Wink.

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Tonight Show: Cleveland Turned on World’s Largest Chandelier

May 05, 2014

Cleveland’s historic Playhouse Square turned on the world’s largest permanent outdoor chandelier on Friday. The 20-foot tall stainless steel light piece shimmers with 4,200 crystal pendants and LEDs fixtures drawing just 1,700 watts (the equivalent of 17 standard 100-watt light bulbs.)

The GE Chandelier, as it is called, was designed by Montreal’s Lumid and uses LEDs and light modules built by GE.

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Save Money, Light Better: Walmart Will Switch 100s of Stores to GE LEDs

April 08, 2014

Fifty years ago, physicist Nick Holonyak was tinkering with lasers in his GE lab when he discovered the world’s first light-emitting diode. “We knew what happened and that we had a powerful way of converting electric current directly into light,” Holonyak says. “We had the ultimate lamp.” His team called it “the Magic One.”

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