While the entertainment world was busy romancing the new generation of LED sources, physicists and electronic techs were busy marrying two technologies that would soon yield another lamp source to rival LEDs in efficiency and surpass them in other areas. The new LiFi solid-state plasma lamp is a tiny bulb that uses a radio-frequency power supply and has an electronic circuit that puts out a tremendous amount of light in a very efficient manner. Just how tiny is the bulb? Roughly the same size as a Tic Tac. The power supply is slightly bigger, coming in at about 4” by 4” by 2-5/8”, but the entire package with the bulb, power supply, and circuitry is still very compact.
—Phil Gilbert, “Technopolis,” PLSN, Nov. 2008
