do not turn off. you cannot anyway.
A lightbulb rated in decades. The filament is thicker, the glass is heavier, the price is honest, and the funeral is cancelled.
yours has been burning for 0 hours
since your first visit to this page. it does not reset. that is the point.
product information
| rated life | decades. the plural is the feature. |
|---|---|
| warranty | outlives the socket |
| planned obsolescence | unplanned |
| replacement schedule | ask your grandchildren |
| subscription | no. it is a lightbulb. |
| firmware | tungsten |
| proof of concept | a firehouse in Livermore, California. one bulb, burning since 1901. it has outlived two webcams pointed at it. |
availability: the moment a manufacturer wants your next purchase less than your trust.
Bulbs like this existed. In 1924 the major manufacturers formed a committee in Geneva, called it Phoebus, and agreed to cap the life of a lightbulb at one thousand hours. Engineers were fined when their bulbs lasted too long. It is the best documented case of a product being made worse on purpose, and it worked so well the whole economy took notes.
A thousand hours was not a limit of physics. It was a line in a meeting's minutes.
The cartel dissolved. The idea did not. Your phone, your printer and your washing machine all descend from that meeting. This page is the counter-proposal: build it once, build it heavy, and let the light do the advertising.