Earlier this month at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show, the Rensselear Polytechnic Institute’s Smart Lighting Engineering Research Center demonstrated a personal light measurement system that will assist in accurately monitoring the body’s circadian rhythm. Designed for Google Glass, the prototype captures an individual’s light exposure and biometric signals, then sends this information to an Android app. The app then provides information that will help the individual achieve better sleep cycles, in turn leading to improved overall health and productivity. This project is the latest of many to explore LED lighting health benefits. So what do LED lights have to do with this? Among all light sources, LEDs are unique in that they can be tuned to control light direction, color temperature, and overall illuminance. LEDs thus play a key role in so-called “human-centric lighting”, which examines lighting exposure as a means to address modern health issues. This is particularly relevant given the ever-increasing amount of time we spend indoors, not to mention the fact that many in the Northern Hemisphere live with little to no sunlight each winter. Imagine this: you live in northern Sweden, where prolonged periods without daylight turn you into a depressed, grumpy, unproductive mess. Along comes a device that measures your personal light intake each day, then automatically tells your home lighting system how much and what sort of light your body needs to function properly. Sounds like science fiction, right? Check out RPI’s Healthy Home Project in Sweden. According to a report published in part by LightingEurope, the use of human-centric lighting helps improve sleep, increase productivity, accelerate healing and even prevent some chronic diseases. LEDs promise to play a central part in this exciting new field of research, and it will be interesting to see where this takes us...

LED strip lights can be connected end to end, creating continuous runs of almost any installation length. With Flexfire connectors, it’s easy to run these lights along curves and even through hard-to-reach corners. This video offers an easy step-by-step tutorial on attaching your LED strip lights to both connectors and a power supply:...

The Flexfire LEDs team is committed to providing you with top quality LED lighting products at competitive prices. We support the ongoing transition to LED lighting, and have structured both our company and website to make this switch easy, simple, and fun for our customers. We became interested in LED lighting applications in 2008, ultimately launching Flexfire LEDs in 2010. Our company is located in Santa Ana, California, where we are surrounded with the latest LED technology. We are committed to sharing this technology with you, helping seek out fun and innovative ways to apply it. All of our products are CE and RoHS Certified, and are backed with a 2-year warranty. We currently sell our own lines of flexible LED strip lights and controllers in addition to several specialty LED lighting products. Our professional grade ColorBright™ and UltraBright™ series include the brightest LED strip lights on the market today, and we are proud to have worked with clients such as NASA, Lockheed Martin, Delta Airlines, and multiple US International Airports. We also offer wholesale prices to the public for those who qualify. We value integrity and are committed to making a difference in our community and the world at large. We proudly donate 5% of our net profits to the Habitat for Humanity Foundation and the Wounded Warrior Project, giving light to those in impoverished countries and communities. Please contact us with any questions, concerns, distribution opportunities, to become an LED distributor, or to place an order. Thank you, Flexfire LEDs, Inc....

  Fill any cove with recessed LED strip lighting to add high-end luxury appeal to living rooms, lounges, and other common areas in your home or business. Thanks to superior technology, LED cove lighting provides naturally bright indirect illumination that lasts much longer and uses significantly less energy than incandescent or fluorescent products. Coves come in all shapes and sizes, meaning there’s no standard product that will suit every space. Further, these coves typically don’t have multiple power feeds, meaning your product options are somewhat limited. Flexfire’s UL Listed UltraBright™ and ColorBright™ LED strip lights offer the perfect solution, as the strips themselves can be turned, cut, and connected together to create linear runs that follow the custom contours of any cove, all from a single power feed. LED strip lights are also dimmable, and come in a variety of colors and temperatures to meet your requirements for any space. They’re incredibly durable as well, providing exceptional light quality for up to 50,000 hours. Compare that with a standard incandescent bulb, which lasts just 2,000 hours at most before burning out. For aesthetic appeal, durability, and energy savings, strip lighting is the ideal choice for LED cove lighting.   Choose one of our convenient Flexfire LEDs strip light kits to suit the appropriate brightness, length and color of your LED cove lighting project:      ...