We achieve low cost, without compromises, by throwing away the false constraint that an LED light has to be a “bulb” - we collapse all of the essential components into a patent-pending 2D LED lighting platform that simply uses a circuit board, and in doing so we reap a lot of benefits in what we are calling “2D-Light LED Disk technology”.

We’ve cut out the heat sink completely, reduced labor and assembly, simplified the LED driver IC and externals and reduced the LED package count from about a dozen to two – you can see, about a 25~30% cost cut. We can do this without compromises, in fact, with BENEFITS, because (sorry about the formatting - Indigogo is horrible for editing pages):

      Obvious Illumination Shortcomings & Shadows of a "Snocone" LED Bulbed Task Lamp

-          Coming to a Walmart near you to ruin consumer impressions of LED Lighting

                                     (image courtesy of Slashgear)

§  The 2D-Light LED disk is a copper surface, which is used as a heat spreader an heat sink

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        The shape of the circuit board also incorporates the threaded connections to the light socket

        • The initial threaded connections will be for the North American “E26” Edison Screw light socket

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    LEDs are not properly omnidirectional, but produce a “Lambertian” cone of light

       • We use a correction lens to produce an almost perfect hemisphere of even light distribution

       • With LEDs and lenses on both sides of the circuit board, we produce two hemispheres, a sphere, of even light distribution, which very few, if any LED lamps can do

·        The LED Disks will initially be available in a 3000K “warm white” color, with 2700K, 4000K and 5000K also available. You will be able to choose which you want when the campaign closes – the higher, more white, color temperatures will produce more lumens and are more efficient, which is why we say “800 lumen-class output”.

·        We use our own patent pending “constant resistance” LED driver architecture, and did not settle for the standard silicon drivers that are out there

o          • This design will naturally dim as voltage is varied, as with a wall dimmer

       • More importantly, we allow electrical utilities to do energy management, by doing “load shedding”

§            • This reduces the need to build more coal plants to cover peak demand

              • This eliminates, or reduced the frequency of, rolling blackouts

§                       • This can reduce consumers’ electrical bills during peak demand, peak tariff, periods

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     We’ve eliminated toxic materials in our energy saving LED Disks, such as the mercury neurotoxin found in CFL bulbs

NliteN’s 2D-Light LED Disks provide all of the advantages of energy saving bulbs, while producing the highest quality of light, an omni-directional point source, and the highest quality product at the levels expected of an American-made product

     Bulb and Energy Costs at 24,000 Hours (22 years @ 3Hr/day) Operation

Your contribution to this campaign will not only get you a very nice looking perk, one that shows everyone that you are on the cutting edge of greening the planet, one that will save you a lot of money on energy costs, but it will also send a message to GE, Cree, and others, that LED lighting is too expensive today and its costs have to come down – a lot. The average price of an A19 bulb, over $21, is too much for anyone to pay, even early adopters.

We’re here to disrupt the market. To show them what can be done. To push the entire industry under 10 bucks. We’ve already done that with a simple press release starting this campaign. A successful campaign here will make them take us more seriously and show them that consumers want high quality, American-made products that are priced at half of the prices of the Chinese-made junk that’s out there and that have extremely high quality and long-life, construction and manufacturing methods.

Please contribute to our efforts to drive dimmable, omnidirectional, point-source, LED lighting prices under $10. Send a message that you no longer want to buy Chinese-made crap at exorbitant prices, or inferior LED lighting - LED lamps that direct light like flashlights instead of acting as an omnidirectional point source like the incandescent bulb was, and is suppose to be.

Our vision is to scale the 2D-Light patent pending design to such a low cost that:

• everyone on the planet can afford to buy these LED Disks, improving the quality of life and consequentially greening the environment by reducing demand for coal generation and significantly reducing energy consumption.
• it can make toxic CFL light bulbs go completely extinct. With your donation, you can take pride in knowing you made the CFL light bulb a laughable relic of the past
• we can offer "smart bulb" functions, like motion sensing, and smart phone remote control for the lowest possible cost

We need your help in realizing this vision by helping to get the working prototype the 2D-Light technology tooled and into American production and by helping us show our prospective investor that they should fund the R&D we need to do get us to the next generation, lower cost version, of this configuration - by developing the lower cost components our clearly innovative and knowledgeable engineers know how to do.

Our vision is a realistic goal developed by experienced engineers and project managers, not a grandiose fantasy or abstract concept. We know how to do it, how to get there, but it takes funding, and then time. Meanwhile, we'll roll each product into production and you can join our team in completely disrupting the entire lighting, and electric utility, industry.

And this is what it's all about for us in the long term (and that's just over a water-filled soda/pop bottle stuck in a roof):

The Simple Joy We Take for Granted of Having Light in Our Homes
                               (courtesy of plastics-themag.com)

Consequentially to everyone buying LED bulbs we all will be reducing energy consumption and the reducing the attendant pollution, effects, risks, and consequences, associated with burning fossil fuels or building nuclear reactors. If people of the world can afford to buy an AFFORDABLE 2D-Light LED disk, or non-profits can afford to distribute them, this all happens as a pleasant consequence.

FOR THE REST OF THE CAMPAIGN, YOU CAN GET EIGHT DIMMABLE 2D-LITE LED DISKS FOR $79.99. CHECK THE PERKS FOR DETAILS