light bulbs

[calimac]

I'm trying to catch up with light bulbs. Once there were incandescent bulbs, which looked like this:

Then we were all encouraged to abandon them and take up LED bulbs, which initially looked sort of like this:

This took some getting used to, but I did.
But then I was just in the hardware store looking, for the first time in a while, for new bulbs, and found that now the LED bulbs are the same shape as the old incandescent bulbs, just with different insides. They look rather like this:

These are the right ones, right? I'm just trying to catch up here.

Comments

Well!

[lsanderson]

Not to quibble, he said quibbling, but with a number of light emitting diodes of zero, the middle light bulb is a fluorescent light -- the worst of the lot.

Re: Well!

[calimac]

I didn't say that was the LED bulb. I said the LED bulb looked sort of like that. Not exactly, but that was the closest picture I could find.