Gadgetory

hey I'm right Chris and I'm here with the Phillips slim style LED this is a new light coming out from Phillips that is intended to replace 60-watt incandescent it uses only 10.5 wats so it's very efficient still putting out 800 lumens of light the real headline here though is that this has a radical new design this isn't a typical light bulb or even a bulb at all it's actually a line of LEDs that are strung out in a horseshoe shape around the edge of this plastic shell and what that does is it dissipates heat much more effectively than a traditional bulb shaped LED and that means you don't need to have those bulky heavy aluminum heat sinks at the base the slim style LED puts out a good amount of light 800 lumens that's the same as the Cree 60 watt replacement that we like very much if you look at those two bulbs side by side you'll see that it's got a less yellowy tone more of a soft white natural light tone if you take a look though my one real criticism about the quality of the light here is that you've got these shadowy areas off to the sides and that kind of flies against the idea of omni directional light this bulb says it's on the directional and for all intents and purposes it is but if you use this led under the lamp shade for instance you're going to notice it and it might be a little bit annoying of course the real question with the slim style LED is how much is it going to cost ideally the lack of the heatsinks means if Phillips is gonna have to spend as much manufacturing it and then be able to pass those savings on to you we don't know yet though Phillips isn't telling us the price we're going to stay tuned and let you know when we find out for seeing that I'm red crest