The cheapest of these: the GE Basic 65-watt Equivalent Floodlight LED, available now at Lowe's in a six-pack that costs $17. That comes out to less than $3 per bulb.

Whether you’re after a basic replacement bulb or a color-capable light bulb with smart features, you’re in the right place.

Cree's new LED is housed within a basic frame that makes it more or less indistinguishable from other bargain-priced bulbs like it.

Left-to-right: Teardown of GE 7,500 hour “Basic”, GE 15,000 hour “Classic”, and 25,000-hour Cree A19 LED bulbs. There’s more to an LED bulb than just the LEDs.

As GE noted, basic LED bulbs cost between $40 and $50 as recently as 2012. Companies were asking homeowners to shell out a ton of money on an unfamiliar product and then to wait seven or eight ...

However, for this article, we're going to accept the basic benefits of the technology and look at examples from two leading retailers, Costco and Home Depot, to assess who sells the better LED bulb.

These smart devices can transform the ambiance and comfort levels of any space in the time it takes to open an app and screw in a light bulb.

This new A19 smart bulb plays nice with Ring doorbells, security cameras, and motion-sensing lights, but it lacks the advanced features that some other smart lighting systems offer.

With basic LED bulbs finally on a steep cost-reduction curve that will enable them to dominate the consumer space, we'll also see a growing demand for more sophisticated SSL products, including smart, ...

Early adopters of LED lighting will remember 50,000 hour or even 100,000 hour lifetime ratings printed on the box. But during a recent trip to the hardware store the longest advertised lifetime I f… ...