LED Christmas lights are here to stay. They offer the benefits of low energy consumption and no heat, but can you live with the color? Flickr user Solarbotics/CC 2.0 In 2006 the Capitol Christmas tree ...

The pursuit of energy efficiency and keeping the nostalgia of Christmas past has been a challenge over the past decade. Christmas lighting has quickly evolved from incandescent bulbs to LED. In the ...

All it takes is one bad bulb to keep all of the other Christmas lights from lighting up. The trouble is, how do you find that one bad bulb? This gadget is supposed to help you find it. A bad bulb ...

A long, long time ago there was a great Design Idea for a simple gadget to find a bad bulb in a series-connected string of Christmas lights: This is really simple and works great, but it exposes the ...

This Christmas, take a moment to appreciate the many innovations that make holiday light displays and the strand of bulbs on your tree possible D. Lawrence Tarazano, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ...