Just over 12 months ago (June 2006), we brought you news of a (then!) super-bright LED whose brightness exceeded that of a 20W halogen. With rapid advancements in the LED field, the next brightness hurdle – that of the 50W halogen – has been jumped.

Osram has developed a light-emitting diode (LED) spotlight that achieves an output of more than 1000 lumens. That’s brighter than a 50W halogen lamp, making the device suitable for a broad range of general lighting applications. The Ostar Lighting LED, scheduled for release within months, can provide sufficient light for a desk from a height of two metres, for example. Its small size also enables the creation of completely new lamp shapes.