Dim a bulb down to 50%, and you might only get 25% of the lumens you'd get at full blast. And guess what? That's a good thing. Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a writer, a text-based ...

When it comes to LED LCDs, as in every TV that's not OLED, the key to the best picture quality is a technology called "local dimming." This gives the TV greater control over what parts of the screen ...

Fluorescent dimming is a new frontier in lighting made popular by the industry's increasing interest in extending the technology's capabilities beyond the traditional architectural and conference room ...

Amazon built a 55-inch QLED TV with Dolby Vision, 64-zone local dimming, and hands-free Alexa. Then Prime Day happened and ...

It's becoming increasingly clear that we will fail to meet our climate goals. We were already at 1.26°C of warming in 2022 and are on track to blow through 1.5°C in the mid-2030s. Research even ...

Solid-state lighting (SSL) differs from conventional lighting in that it uses light-emitting diodes (LEDs) instead of filaments, plasma, or gases. Although still relatively early in its development, ...

Have you ever looked at your phone and gotten a headache? Sometimes, it just means you've been on it too long and need to take a break. For some folks like me, it's the display itself that's causing ...

Measurements from the 1960s to the early 1990s, backed up by a wide range of data and a number of independent studies, showed there were substantial declines in the amount of the sun's energy reaching ...