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imagine installing a light bulb and not needing to replace it until your newborn baby graduates from medical school introducing the Phillips L prize LED bulb the longest lasting bulb on the market to date actually last twenty seven point four years is what they say so thirty roughly 30,000 hours which is phenomenal compared to your average incandescent bulb which is on on average a thousand hours experts say the technology behind this environmentally friendly bulb is pretty remarkable they really are better than CFLs they're much better than incandescent in terms of their efficiency in terms of their life they're instant on dimmable I mean they're just they're high-tech lights there's no other way to say it and then there's the bulbs glow much warmer than its competition LED light bulb technology started in flashlights but the tech has come a long way making the glows softer and warmer so that consumers would want to put these bulbs in their home but these specs come with a price sixty dollars a bulb before rebates at some retailers as involves and as the market grows and the the customer demand grows the price will drop they are selling but they're certainly not sure taking over the world just because people have other options and compact fluorescent bulbs and there still are other more efficient incandescent technologies namely halogens competing with other technologies for your dollars and cents to earn a spot in your living room in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News