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OLED lighting hits home (pictures)

Acuity Brands' OLED lighting fixtures, which use easy-on-the-eyes panels instead of bright bulbs, are now for sale through Home Depot. Here's a look at the line.

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Acuity Brands' $300 Chalina
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Acuity Brands Chalina

Acuity Brands, a major US manufacturer of light fixtures, hopes the public will warm to OLED illumination, another energy-efficient alternative alongside LED lighting. Acuity is now selling OLED light fixtures at Home Depot: the $300 Chalina (above) and the $200 Aedan.

Acuity Brands' Aedan fixtures
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Acuity Brands Aedan

Acuity Brands' Aedan fixtures have two light panels, one on each side. Here five of them are shown in a suspended form. The Aedan also can be mounted against a wall as a sconce.

Acuity also sells commercial lighting fixtures.
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Aurora Lighting Design

Acuity also sells commercial lighting fixtures. Here Aurora Lighting Design in Chicago uses the Acuity Trilia fixture in a design intended to work either for office or residential areas.

Chalina fixtures
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More lights, more money

A constellation of Chalina fixtures provides more light -- but costs a lot more money.

Acuity Trilia fixture
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Acuity Brands Trilia

Here's a look at how Aurora Lighting Design arranged its Trilia light fixtures. Each one is a three-pronged collection of smaller panels.

Aurora Lighting Design has added OLED lighting options to its architectural lighting practice as well as to its office.
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OLEDs at work

Aurora Lighting Design has added OLED lighting options to its architectural lighting practice as well as to its office.

​The OLED lighting is cool, easing overheating concerns.
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Acuity wall illumination

The OLED lighting is cool, easing overheating concerns and letting fixtures be placed directly against walls and ceilings.

​A single Chalina fixture mounted on a ceiling.
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Lone Chalina

A single Chalina fixture mounted on a ceiling.

Suspended versions of the Aedan fixture.
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Suspended Aedan fixtures

Suspended versions of the Aedan fixture can be pivoted to point different directions.

Acuity Brands Chalina
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Chalina spot lighting

Acuity Brands' Chalina can provide spot lighting.

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