This is one of those - wow I am starting to feel old kind of developments….retiring the lightbulb?! I am having enough trouble grasping the transition to HDTV and now the incandescent lightbulb is leaving too? What’s next? Soon I won’t even use an ATM card to buy my groceries, they will just scan my eye instead. Remember that scene in Minority Report when Tom Cruise gets an eye transplant!? Yuck!

From the article:

The incandescent light bulb, one of the most venerable inventions of its era but deemed too inefficient for our own, will be phased off the U.S. market beginning in 2012 under the new energy law just approved by Congress. Although this will reduce electricity costs and minimize new bulb purchases in every household in America, you may be feeling in the dark about the loss of your old, relatively reliable source of light…

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