Panasonic has released a dandy looking light bulb for the future. It looks a lot like something from the past. Certainly LED light bulbs have their place in our lighting future as they already do in our present. Cree has certainly topped our charts here at GreenHomes America, especially when it comes to recessed down lighting. 
As expected, the Pansonic LED Nostalgic Clear, promises a long life at 40,000 hours and significant energy savings at 4.4w over 20W (for a CFL) with an A-Energy rating. At 2700k Panasonic claims the bulb produces a soft warm light, and overall it is fairly compact.
I’ve mentioned the Switch bulb which I think looks pretty neat even when off, but with this one, your interior decorating scheme might be a bit more industrial.
Let’s face it, sometimes you can see the light bulb and who wants to look at some clunky piece of technology from the 1980’s Battlestar Galactica days? I do like the look of the Panasonic Nostalgic Clear.
The frontier is still multi-directional, bright lighting; something as yet not done well by LED lighting overall, and I am sure is lacking in this Panasonic bulb as well. Gerry Negley, Cree’s CTO has said, “I don’t know what lighting will look like in the 21st century. I can tell you it will not be constrained with shapes and technology of the past. It will not look like a traditional light bulb.” Can’t wait to see, but for now give me something familiar to light the way.
