About the "off" the popular, cheap and friendly eyes bulb after the EU will, at this point was already a lot written. More gratifying is the message that it is now known as a consolation prize "Heat Balls" are. (See also the article. "The bulb is dead - long live the Heat Ball" in Zeitgeist Issue 30). The "Heat Ball" is not a lamp. But fits into the same socket as the incandescent bulb; It is intended for heating, which is also available separately on it! - Nice to have even in its healthy, because the sunlight spectrum can read similar light here. And without nerve-damaging mercury emissions.
The Heat ball does not have the special: When it breaks down, you simply return it together. Breaks an energy saving lamp, their remains must be disposed of after application of a respirator, the carpet o. Ä., Where the mishap happened, must be carefully excised.
Even more outraged a message the press (General Anzeiger Bonn, 11 / 12.12.2010), that for weeks 40,000 Heat Balls from China are detained by Customs at Cologne / Bonn airport (!)! Two engineers from Niederzier they wanted to import to Germany. The Cologne regional government commissioned in the dispute over the heat balls the Association of German Electrical Engineers with a report: Are the Heat Balls small heaters or light bulbs? (More ...)