If you stop and think about it, when Edison invented the light bulb he also had to invent the socket. Edison was a master innovator, but it must have become clear to him pretty quickly that continued ...

It is pretty much a given that, at some point in time, a light bulb is going to burn out somewhere in your home. The good news is that changing a light bulb, or installing a smart light bulb, is a ...

Low-energy bulbs are incompatible with millions of lamps and sockets in homes, it has emerged. Lighting experts said many of the more bulky fluorescent lights were too large for table and standard ...

Budget smart home device manufacturer Wyze has developed a clever way to make your dumb outdoor lights smart: a lamp socket with a cable that connects to a Wyze Cam v3 security camera. The cable sends ...

In a nutshell, plugs and sockets differ from region to region and even country to country because, at the time they were being developed, no one really saw any reason to make them all the same. First, ...