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more about #lighting more comments → jepzilla: It may just be a concept today, but when I see photos like those it makes me think 'damn, living in the future rules.' more » Michai: Nice images, super cool light design. more » yantelope: I've seen a lot of lighting reps pushing their fluorescent lighting fixtures with designs and patterns behind them with varying degrees of success but... more » The5thElephant: Song is "Drop" by Cornelius if anyone wanted to know. Oops, people beat me to it. This song is making me nostalgic for my Freshmen/Sophomore dorm days. more » Alfisted: Tuned properly, SPICA can return solid performance ... or so I'm told. more » Gordonium: "Hey, come check this out! You gotta see this... God damn it, my speaker's fogged up. Hold on..." more » Bokusatsu_Tenshi: This fits better at Instructables than on a project design... Subwoofers + leds + water... and some mods to make the vibration create certain shapes o... more » RoboBagins: Wonder if you could combine this with oil suspension so you could have different coloured layers or something. Add in some glitter to catch the light ... more » Digo: I have a similar setup but, unfortunately, the only sounds it makes are of water flowing and of me going to the bathroom. more » BergenCountyJC can edit his name?: Put this 'tech' in a bong and you got a winner more » -
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Finally, Hospital Lighting Reminiscent of a Cylon Base Ship
Granted, the green-tinged fluorescence of most hospital rooms is by no means comfortable, but Philips' solution, seen here, looks like a straight-up alien probe chamber—or so I've heard. More » -
#peripherals
The Spica Water Speaker Allows You To Experience Music In Uncomfortable New Ways
When was the last time a song made you want to pee? Well, there is a first time for everything, and your first bladder-rocking beat may come courtesy of the Spica water speaker. More » -
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I Just Can't Get Enough of These Robolamps
Croatian artist Robert Matysiak has a really awesome thing going with his Robolamps. It's just a bunch of plumbing supplies and green light bulbs, but I want to collect them all. More » -
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Fiat Lux Lamp Actually Runs On Magic
I rarely get truly impressed by gadgets. They may be beautiful. They may do nice tricks. But very rarely they make me smile out of pure wonderment. That's exactly what happened when I watched the Fiat Lux Lamp in action. More » -
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Gigantic LED Funnels Will Light Up 2010 Expo, Suck Rain, Spacetime Continuum
See that enormous blue funnel in the middle of those buildings? It's just one of the six canopies that will light up the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. As the close-ups show, the scale of these things defies belief: More » -
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Duct Tape With Embedded LEDs Opens Up a New World of Half-Assed Possibilities
Think about all of the half-assed repairs we can already do with duct tape. Imagine what it would be like if embedded LEDs were thrown into the mix? We're talking half-assed upgrades here. More » -
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A Painfully Self-Aware Lamp
Does the average lamp know that it's a lamp? Verner Panton's Wire Table Lamp, shaped like a very classy light bulb, seems to be aware of its place in the world. More » -
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Rubik Lamp's Pretty Puzzling Light
For now, the equally beautiful and dorky Rubik Lamp is just a resin prototype. Looking at its kaleidoscopic funkiness as it gets scrambled, however, I wish it was a real product available now. More » -
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Super Guppy Lamp Fills Your Home with Highway Lighting
Nothing makes for a better reading experience than the warm orange glow of fast food parking lot lighting. Now you can bring the effect home by sticking a traffic light in your living room. More » -
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Desk Lamp Rotates To Become a Light Box For Artists
If you dabble in art and design, you will immediately see the benefit of a lamp that can rotate and adjust positions to become a light box. More » -
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Turn On Lamp Is Brought To You By The Letter "Q"
Inspired by the universal symbol for power (or the letter "Q" as it were), designer Marco Lana's rechargeable Turn On lamp can be switched on or off depending on its orientation. More » -
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Firefly Lives On As an LED Light
Designer Harry Allen is the kind of person that would look at roadkill as an opportunity. For example, he recycled the carcass of a pig for a bank and a dead firefly for a lamp. More » -
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Decorate Science-Class-Style with Labware Lamps
Benjamin Hubert's Labware Lamps don't merely breed nostalgia of our scientific conquests of yore; they're hand-blown glass beakers plugged with Portuguese cork. In other words, they'll impress your geeky and snobby friends alike. [Benjamin Hubert via moco loco] -
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CTRL and Shift Button Lights Are a Shortcut To Escaping The Boogieman
For those of you who experience life mainly through a series of keystrokes, I give you the CTRL and Shift button LED light. More » -
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Diamond Light Is Probably Manufactured in Krypton
The Diamond Light by Hiroki Takada has three of the best things I like in lighting design: Weirdness, disco bling bling, and the possibility of making photons bounce until they create a massive laser capable of vaporizing the planet. More » -
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Pixel Bulb Iconizes Your Light Source
Here's a great design-art piece by Marcus Tremonto. Called Pixel Bulb, the iconized lightbulb is made of "2D electroluminescent paper." I guess they mean OLED. It's so pretty I want to triple-click it. [Unplggd] -
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Concrete Lamp: Maybe It's Time For a Stronger Desk
If you have designs on this handsome Heavy Desk Light from Benjamin Hubert, you'll probably want to ditch the cheap desk you bought at Office Depot. The base and the shade are both made from concrete. [BenjaminHubert via Dezeen] -
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The Dervish Ceiling Fan Lamp Could Probably Wash Your Car
If you have ever been to an automatic car wash, it should be pretty easy to figure out where designer Philippe Malouin found his inspiration for the Dervish ceiling fan concept. More » -
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Blood-Powered Lamp Teaches You The Hard Way
Perhaps you would be better about lowering your carbon footprint if lighting up your home required a sample of your own blood. Designer Mike Thompson thinks so. More » -
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McDonald's Lamp Post Makes Me Doubt My Sanity Even More
If I was walking through the streets to find this McDonald's coffee themed lamp post, three would be my thoughts: One, I shouldn't have had that last Manhattan. Two, I need coffee. Three, I need way better coffee than McDonald's. More » -
#wrongmodo
Penis Chandelier—Yes, Penis. Chandelier
Leave it to our sex expert Debby Herbenick to find artifacts like this giant penis chandelier, apparently made by a Dutch company called Rock and Royal. Their pirate skull and crossbones chandelier is quite good too. More » -
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Giant Light Canons Can Decorate Entire Mountains From One Kilometer Away
This is Machu Picchu, the famous Inca site in Los Andes. And that giant symbol covering the mountain—called Huayna Picchu—is not Sauron resurrected, but a light drawing projected from one kilometer away using PAE light canons. More » -
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German-Engineered Die Nachteule Is the World's Most Powerful Reading Light
Designed and engineered in Germany, the Die Nachteule reading light slaps an LED on your glasses that's as bright as a 60-watt bulb. So whether you are exploring the Harry Potter series or a cave, this clip has you covered. More » -
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Blow On And Off Light Switch Is The Clapper For People With Decent Lung Capacity
Can you still blow out your birthday candles? Yes? Then you just might have what it takes to own one of these light switches. It's like The Clapper, only lazier. More » -
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Gorillatorch Is So Smart and Cute I Want to Adopt a Dozen
Here is one of the most brilliant ideas in a long time: The Gorillatorch, a combination of a LED light source and the classic Gorillapod wrappable legs with "super-strong magnetic feet." Looking at the gallery, this critter seems alive: More » -
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The Thousand and One Drinking Straw Lamp
Scott Jarvie has created this beautiful lamp, made of hundreds of striped drinking straws. The result is a gently colored light. Now we only need a thousand Mojitos and a lot of sucking power. [Mocoloco] More » -
#leds
LED Handrails Prevent Stairway Spills
In the not too distant future, LED handrails could make every stairwell seem like you are about to enter someplace indecent. More » -
#concepts
Pillet TP Holder Becomes a Lamp When You Squeeze the Charmin
Designer Miguel Melgarejo's Axixia building urinal was absurd, but he truly outdid himself with the Pillet energy-generating toilet paper holder / lamp. More » -
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Giant Lightbulb Is Made of Paper
At 17x17x30 inches, this huge lightbulb would have been absolutely amazing. But since it's not made of glass and metal, but paper, it's just cute. So cute that I still would like to have one, though. [Kyouei via Likecool] -
#asseenontv
Candle Quick: The Dream Machine of Laura Ingalls Wilder and Satan Himself
Really? Is there someone out there burning through such copious amounts of candles that they require one gadget just to melt down the scraps? More » -
#decor
The Spoticam Only Pretends It Cares Enough to Spy on You
I can't speak for everyone here, but I can't even take a piss without 3 or 4 cameras filming me at all times. So these Spoticam lamps will save me a lot of VHS-C tape. More » -
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Epson Ink Cartridge Lamp Is Color Compatible With Any Decor
As it turns out, Epson ink cartridges make for one sweet-looking lamp. This handmade item is not cheap at $200, but that's a bargain for anyone that doesn't have 8 super-expensive K3 cartridges lying around. [Etsy via Engadget via DVICE] -
#leds
Inside U2's Behemoth 74-Ton 360° LED Concert Screen
Love them or hate them, there's no denying U2 has a knack for bending light to its will. Their latest creation is no different. At 74 tons, it's an epic, morphing LED centerpiece for an already technology-heavy concert tour. More » -
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When Lampshades Are Turned Inside Out
Designer Christopher Moulder has taken a new approach to the lampshade by integrating both shade and lamp into a single unit. Plus, the shade conducts electricity, so there is no need for wires. More » -
#oled
Clean, White OLED Light Coming to an Office Park Near You
White, environmentally sound and cool to the touch OLED lights could very well be the future of mundane office environment lighting, but for now they're just meant to be man handled by four geeks at a table. More » -
#lightbulbs
New Heat-Reflecting Technology Threatens to Make Incandescent Bulbs Fashionable Again
I know, I know. Tech writers spent all this time hyping CFLs, and now it's possible that incandescent bulbs might be acceptable again thanks to a new technology that seals the filament in a special, heat-reflecting inner-capsule? The nerve! More » -
#design
Altrove Lighting: How Spiderwebs Might Look in 2020
Altrove is a new lighting product that uses "transparent wires" (which we think means fishing line, not fiber optics) to create a geometric yet ethereal mesh of light on your wall or ceiling. [Artemide via MocoLoco] -
#lamps
Sanyo Eneloop Lamp Charges Wirelessly, Doubles as a Flashlight
Fueled by the original rechargeable batteries from 2005, Sanyo's consistently strange eneloop (on-a-loop) line keeps on growing: next up is the eneloop Lamp, a vaselike, wirelessly chargeable table lamp that turns into a flashlight when picked up. -
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Sharp LED Lightbulbs Sets the White Point In Your Entire House
Why change the camera white point when you can actually change the entire room white point and leave your camera fixed? OK, that doesn't make any sense at all, but you can do it with the new Sharp LED lamps. More »
