Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a writer, a text-based adventure connoisseur, a lover of terrible movies and an enthusiastic yet mediocre cook. A CNET editor from 2013 to 2024, Ry's ...

A new crop of LED light bulbs wants to combine modern technology with old-school looks. Here's what to look for as you pick one out. Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a writer, a ...

Despite plenty of technical advances, incandescent lightbulbs still rule when it comes to color and quality of light. The trouble is, they don’t always last so long, and they waste almost all of their ...

Once upon a time, buying a lightbulb meant choosing an incandescent one of between 25 and 100 watts, depending on how bright you wanted the light to be and the fixture you were putting it in. You ...

I’ve been playing around with various LED smart lights for over a decade. The first set of household bulb replacements that I really got into was a Philips Hue kit I bought in 2012. It was pretty cool ...

LED lightbulbs are more energy-efficient than standard bulbs, but that doesn't mean they work perfectly all of the time. Here ...

Last year I visited Switch Lighting, a small Silicon Valley company that claimed to have built something revolutionary. Switch’s product: a light bulb that produced the same warm, comforting glow that ...

I’ve also treated the topic of LED illumination more conceptually; take, for example, this piece from more than seven years ago that analyzed LED and CFL light bulbs as potential successors to ...

There’s an entire standup routine waiting to be written about how smart home accessoriescan be incredibly dumb and complicated. But one of the easiest smart home upgrades, smart lighting, has just ...

This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. The lightbulb was flickering over my head. Not the idealized cartoon ...