LED lightbulbs: Are you ready to make the switch?

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High price and a strange color. No, we're not talking about a hairdo. Those are the two factors that have kept light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, from becoming a mainstream light source.

But that might change soon, said Zach Gibler, chief business development officer of Lighting Science Group (http://www.lsgc.com/), which plans to announce distribution deals with major retailers for its LED bulbs that screw into a regular socket.
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Source: News.com (http://www.news.com/8301-11128_3-992...tag=nefd.pop)*

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As soon as they become available we will be switching over. We use LED head torches when night fishing and find batteries last around 4 times longer than standard head torch. They IMHO even provide a better quality of light tahn standard lamps