Reinventing the Lightbulb

Kickstarter, the huge fundraising platform for innovative ideas and creativity, is now generating consumer excitement about their latest project, Nanolight. The geometrically shaped light bulb not only has a one of a kind  look, but is said to be the most energy efficient LED bulb in the world. The Campaign The Kickstarter Campaign has over exceeded it’s original goal of $20,000, already gaining more than $230,000 in pledges and 4837 backers. The brains behind the remarkable light bulb is scientist and engineer, Tom Rodinger,who partnered with Christian Yan and product developer, Jimmy Chu. The company’s goal is to decrease carbon footprints, increase energy efficiency and maintain an ecological value in all of it’s products Lessen the load of your power  bill Though Nanolight is far from the first company to create a more energy efficient light bulb, Nanolight is taking this idea to a much higher level. This ingenious light bulb uses only 12 watts of energy,  nearly half of the energy use of other LED bulbs. Just to give you a taste of the savings that will come with the Nanolight, take a look at other bulbs comparatively. Based on an energy rate of $.14/ kWh for a of [...]

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