My first thought when I read this was that it appears to be another clever trick, like halogen lamps, to rejuvenate the tungsten and make incandescents more efficient. But this trick doesn't require a gas and I guess the mechanics are different. It seems kind of ironic that after all the development put into cramming a switching power supply into every bulb to operate an alternate lighting source, the solution may be to go back to basics and just reexamine the mechanics. If this succeeds, efficient bulbs will have less components to fail and old 2-wire X10 switches should work as well with them as they ever did with incandescents. One more problem solved! Thanks for sharing, Dave H!
