[Citizen Zed]

I prefer an incandescent bulb and a wall switch.

[Gaffer]

I’ve gone LED with a lot of applications. Especially those without a lot of additional internal components. Failure mechanisms in CFLs pretty much tells me they aren’t a long lasting item....but I’ve had some LEDs that have been phenomenal in reliability and efficiency.

IOW, I’m not all incandescent, especially where my lighting needs can be met with an LED at a reasonable cost.

[Blue Jays]

Great...so we can have hackers intentionally turn-on and turn-off interior lights to see from outside if anyone is home. Perfect.

[Squidpup]

So, THEY will be able to hack into your lights and keep you in the dark. /tinfoil off

[VanDeKoik]

Dollar store bulbs.

I’ll provide the “smarts”.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I found an LED bulb on sale at Lowe’s for seven bucks.
Uses six watts for the equivalent of a 40 watt incandescent. It’s the one I leave on if I am out of the house at night. Waiting to see what the savings look like, if any.

[Da Coyote]

Hmmm, TIME is incompetent beyond measure as simple things such as politics and the economy.

And they’re trying to say things about something that involves real science?

As it happens, they may be like the stopped clock - and are correct occasionally...as they are with respect to LEDs.

However, ‘twould be interesting to see what they had to say about the General Motors of lights...the CFL - years ago.

[Pilated]

incandescent bulbs have been phenomenal in reliability and efficiency why in the world would I change. I will not use anything else.

[Organic Panic]

LEDs are great. I use them all over my shop. I replaced the sodium vapor lights with LEDs. Sure it cost $400 but WOW what a difference. They take the beating that is common in a shop. And if you get water on them they don’t blow up.

In the house... It’s all 25 cent regular old light bulbs.

I HATE the curly cue fluorescent light bulbs. Total junk.

[rbbeachkid]

I just bought 2 cases of incandecent 100 watt bulbs from Amazon because we can’t get them here anymore. I can see again!

[Billthedrill]

At last the EPA will be able to meter citizens’ light use and turn them off when the daily ration is exceeded. That might prove inconvenient in the middle of an appendectomy, but gosh darn it, it’s for The Earth.

[Pollster1]

Web-connected light bulbs? Someone needs to get a life! I dim my lights as needed by walking to a wall switch, where I installed the dimmers myself. I have old-style incandescent bulbs still, where they are best. I have a lot of CFL, but only where I can tolerate their quirks. I have a few LED, and that number will increase as they get cheaper. What I will never pay for is silliness like Wi-fi for light bulbs.

[fwdude]

A big consideration for me is the light quality. Yes, I’m high maintenance in this regard, but I don’t want a light that changes the color of things, like my food.

[Covenantor]

yeah, how hard is to flip a switch?

I not sure where the energy savings are with wi-fi lights as outlined. Out of pocket $65 with one low level LED bulb plus powered hub which needs to be always on for the concept towork.

“June, where’s the damn light remote?”
“I think that the Beaver took it outside. I noticed the neighbor’s lights going and on. Ward you don’t think he’s...”

[perfect_rovian_storm]

If only the stupid government hadn’t poisoned the well by trying to force out working technology in favor of technology that wasn’t ready yet, people would be more open to how great the LED bulbs actually are.

I cut my electric bill by 1/3 by switching out incandescents to LEDs without any sacrifice in light quality. It took like 4 months to pay back the investment for the bulbs.

These smart bulbs, on the other hand, are about on the level of a ‘smart watch’ in terms of real-world usability in my opinion. I just don’t get them at all. I can find a use for all kinds of home automation equipment, but the bulb is not the component I want to use to control a lamp.

[WKUHilltopper]

I prefer candles...no spy/surveillance lights for me.

[JRandomFreeper]

Ain't the free market great? You get what you want, and I get what I want, and they aren't the same thing at all.

/johnny

[NewHampshireDuo]

The cool light LEDs are not bad. We’ve gotten a bunch of them from Lowe’s and Dollar Store for anywhere from $1.00 to $5.00.

We still like good old Thomas Edison’s bulbs for reading.

[spokeshave]

One like this:

The Centennial Light is the world's longest-lasting light bulb. It is at 4550 East Avenue, Livermore, California, and maintained by the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department.[1] The fire department says that the bulb is at least 113 years old and has been turned off only a handful of times. Due to its longevity, the bulb has been noted by The Guinness Book of World Records,[2] Ripley's Believe It or Not!, and General Electric.[3] It is often cited as evidence for the existence of planned obsolescence in later-produced light bulbs.[4]

[Conan the Librarian]

We have LEDs in almost all the lights on our sailboat (it’s also our house and home). My main issue is that some are just too bright. They are also not bulbs but flat panel breadboards with the chips embedded.

They pull VERY little power though. Some also have a “RED” setting which can be important when sailing at night.

I’m hoping to get one of these red lights made into a lamp for astronomy purposes.

[xander]

Costco - best prices on most houshold LEDs and recessed retrofit LEDs. Some exterior LEDS (porch, post, motion).

Dollar stores sometimes have LED bulbs. All I have seen are the 60w, 2700k temp, 800lumen, equivalents and are not dimmable.

A little known side benefit of LEDs is that they don’t emit UV light due to their limited spectral output range. Their use helps prevent the fading of items in the living/work space from long term UV exposure like you get with fluorescent bulbs.