I spent Black Friday wrapped in a sleeping bag outside a Best Buy store with the goal of snagging a ridiculously cheap laptop for my kid sister when the doors opened at 5 a.m. After hours of shivering outside the store, it turns out there weren’t enough doorbuster laptops to go around. I went home empty handed, but believe me, there’s more than one tech item on her holiday wish list (that’s the danger in asking a 14-year-old what they want for Christmas).

I was so close to the front of the line and I still didn't get it.

But what happens when you ask one of the founders of Cree to name the product or technology on his holiday wish list? Well, let’s just say the answer is something you can’t find at an electronics store – yet!

Cree Co-Founder John Edmond.

ECN Magazine recently asked one of our founders, John Edmond, to answer the question. And John –who still works in the labs researching and developing brighter, more efficient LEDs 22 years after helping found the company – channeled his love for LED lights to answer the question.  Here’s a snippet of what he told them:

“If I could wish for any technological development this holiday, I would put an LED A-19 lightbulb at the top of my list. One that can replace a 60 Watt incandescent or a 20 Watt hazardous CFL and is available for any homeowner to purchase at a local store. Sure, engineers around the world are working on this right now. But I’m impatient and I’d like it now.”

You can read his full holiday request here.

Now let’s turn the question around on you. What’s on your technology wish list?