A broken light bulb doesn’t just leave you in the dark. Shattered glass and exposed electrical connections are a hazard, especially when you’re trying to get the lightbulb base out of the socket.

As also noted previously, I’ve done a lot of LED light bulb teardowns over the years, not even counting LED illumination sources that aren’t bulb-shaped, like touch-activated and motion-sensing panels ...

All that being said, you may still see light when you initially put a non-dimmable bulb in a dimmer light. Even if that is the case, it won't take long for the bulb to begin to fail.

They change colors. Dimming the lights to set a mood is fine, but you can take it a step further. Many smart bulbs also change color. In fact, some, including the Flux Smart LED Light Bulb, can ...

Interestingly enough, though some lighting experts recommend you not use a standard bulb in a 3-way socket, they generally agree that taking the opposite approach will, more often than not, work ...

You can't buy incandescent light bulbs anymore. With a few exceptions, the bulbs – patented by Thomas Edison in 1880 and a common fixture in American homes for more than a century – have ...

The comparison was done using two bulbs of similar brightness: A 60W incandescent and a 12W LED: The 60W incandescent bulb uses 60 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity every 1,000 hours. At the ...