Hasta La Ideas

While announcements of new LED bulbs are becoming humdrum, their external designs, pleasingly, are not. We’re digging the rampant stylistic differences each manufacturer comes up with as they incorporate crucial cooling elements into the same vaguely bulb-shaped form factor. Initially this yielded Machine-Age-like fins in tight configurations (above), which remind us of old air-cooled motorcycles; Alessi then broke out of this (below) with signature quirkiness, shaping fins and slits to their design whims.

The latest offering comes from GE, and they’ve eschewed the tight metal fin configuration—though not gone as design-ey as Alessi—with their new Energy Smart A-19 bulb:

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