Toshiba has developed what they are calling the “Neoball-Z Real Pride” which I have to admit is about the most radical name for a lightbulb (ever).

The Neoball has a rated life that is 1.2 times longer than that of the existing cfl’s (10,000 hours), and whoops incandescent bulbs which only last a pathetic 120 hours. The new lamp comes in three colors, warm white, day white and daylight. Not only does it last WAY longer than normal (or even CFL) light bulbs it only uses a meager 10 watts (most “normal” bulbs use 60W)

Toshiba did some science mojo on the flurecent coil making is slightly bigger and doing some other things that make the light production more efficient and more “natural” looking. They also used a polycarbonate globe, using a new technique they developed to insert the spiral shape of the CFL into a globe.

12000 hours is 500 days or about 1.3 years. Meaning that if you left this bulb on non stop it would run for OVER a year. Because lights are hardly ever left on that long this bulb could last 5-7 years of use.

Edit: (thanks for the math help George, see what happens when you forget a decimal place the shame, it is unbearable, but the message is still the same efficiency = savings)

If you took a normal 60 watt light bulb and left it on for a year it would use 525.6 KW/H of electricity, or about 52.5 Dollars worth of energy (assuming 10Cents a KW/H). You would also have to buy 73 light bulbs because they would keep burning out for about 10 bucks (if you buy in bulk off of amazon). For a grand total of 62.5 dollars.

If you used one of these new light bulbs for a year you would use 87.6 KW/H of electricity, or about 8.8 dollars worth or energy (assuming 10 cents a KW/H). You would only have to use one bulb (less than one as they last longer than a year) lets say it costs 20 bucks (just to be silly), for a total of 28 dollars, you would still save many dollars. More likely this bulb will cost about 6-10 dollars.