The new light bulb. The Finally Light Bulb Company claims that their lamp is the first product of its kind with the omnidirectional lighting, warmth, and design of incandescent bulbs, it more closely mimics incandescent bulbs than do LED or compact-fluorescent (CFL) replacement lamps while still providing considerable energy savings and much longer life relative to legacy incandescent bulbs.
According to the company, its “The Finally” acandescent light bulb offers the glow and warmth of incandescent light bulbs, but does so by maintaining the energy efficiency of CFLs and LEDs.
The design is like that of an incandescent light bulb, and The Finally offers instant-on lighting, offering 15x the lifespan and 75-percent better efficiency than the aforementioned old-tech bulbs.
Available now for preorder, its eponymous bulb has no filament or diode, but instead, produces light using a compressed form of induction. The company calls this technology “Acandescence,” and claims that its bulb is the first one to truly replicate the look and feel of incandescent light while still adhering to modern efficiency standards.
It has the same familiar A19 shape and uses 75% less energy than an incandescent bulb, using 14.5 watts. It lasts 15,000 hours, which is about 15 times longer than your old bulb. It has a Color Rendering Index (CRI – the ability to reproduce colors relative to natural light: sunlight has a CRI of 100) of 83, and a warm white of 2700 K (how warm or cool the light is)
The company is applying well-known induction technology in a light-bulb form factor. Induction lighting has been fairly broadly used in outdoor applications and in some industrial indoor applications. Induction has been described as generating a “blob of light”. That characteristic has meant that induction fixtures have found some success outdoors in applications.
The Finally lamp has the inherent iconic shape of the Edison lamp and a nice omnidirectional beam distribution with warm light produced by the lamp. The 60W-equivalent lamp is due in July at $7.99 with 75W- and 100W-equivalent products due in the fall.
