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hey I'm seen that's right Crist and I'm here not what the world's lamest flight saver but actually with a new light bulb this is the GE Brite stick LED and you can see it's not really a bulb at all it's actually more of a lipstick tube shaped cylinder that shines out light in all directions and under lampshade looks more or less the same as the old bulbs now aside from the shape what's really interesting about this light is the price point ge is gonna be selling them in three packs at Home Depot for $10 each and that's a very good deal if you've been waiting to upgrade the lights in your home that price puts this light right on par with the new Phillips 60 watt replacement LED that's a $5 LED you can get at Home Depot and right now they're selling it at 2 for 1 pricing but that will expire soon this ge praised the 3 for 10 dollars isn't going anywhere so within a month or so it's gonna be the cheapest LED you can get from a major manufacturer now it's pretty happy with this bulb when I tested it out a little bit dimmer than you might like it's 786 lumens but probably not quite enough to notice close enough to 800 that you'll be happy with it it's got a nice color temperature at 2700 K and you can also get daylight versions at the same price so there's two options there one that's orange and one that's kind of blue one caveat though this bulb isn't dimmable so if you try and dial the lights down on a dimmer switch you'll get a lot of flicker and Buzz you don't want that now it's not quite as good as that Philips bulb in brightness or efficiency the Philips bulb has about an extra 50 lumens again a very tough distinction to notice and also better efficiency the Philips bulb uses 8.5 watts this is a 10 watt bulb so the Philips bulb in the long run is gonna cost slightly less to use about 20 cents less per year in energy costs that said this ge bright stick does have a couple of edges over Phillips it has a longer warranty at five years Philips gives you three and also a longer lifespan 15 thousand hours compared to the ten thousand hours or so that you'll get out of that Philips bulb I also like that despite the odd shape it still cast plenty of downward reading lines so if you wanted to read under this thing you'll have no problem all in all at about 3 bucks a bulb this is a pretty terrific value and if you've been waiting to upgrade the lights in your home and looking for a good option to do a lot at once this might be the exact thing you're looking for thanks for watching check out the rest of our LED reviews and smart-home coverage at cnet.com for CNET appliances I'm right for you