The Plumen 001 lightbulb, which has been described as the "world's first designer energy saving light bulb", has won the Design of the Year Award at the 2011 Brit Insurance Design Awards today.

We all know how energy efficient compact fluorescent bulbs are, and we've all been hearing for the past couple years how we should replace every light bulb in our house with a CFL. But have you ...

Few products in recent history have been as disruptive as the compact fluorescent light bulb. While it’s rare for new inventions to result in legislation banning less technologically advanced ...

LONDON, England, Sept. 10, 2010 — The first "designer" CFL bulb made the leap from concept to reality last week as London-based Hulger began taking orders for its Plumen I, a nontraditional low-energy ...

Even a broken CFL bulb won’t leak too much toxic metal. According to the EPA, just 6.8 percent of the mercury in a CFL bulb—that’s at most 0.34 milligrams—is released if it shatters.

Belarusian industrial design duo Solovyovdesign just unveiled a clever brain-shaped compact fluorescent light bulb that turns the phrase “bright idea” into a literal source of light. Spotted ...

Back in 2005, Oprah got on TV, with Leonardo DiCaprio and his Prius, to warn us all of the dangers of global warming, urging us to swap out incandescent bulbs for more energy-conscious compact ...