[Red5 via GeekAlerts]

Contact 5.5 Designers for pricing and availability info. And please refrain from asking if they can reproduce certain other bodyparts. You'll embarrass us. Again. [5.5 Designers via IfIt'sHip and Shiny Shiny]

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For anyone willing to put in the serious amount of time it will take to piece this lamp together, the kit contains instructional videos and manuals, templates, and decals. Expect to pay around $60 for parts on top of the $20 it costs for the kit itself. All in all, $80 is a small price to pay for a lighting solution this awesome. [Roger Dodger via TFTS]

The Room Tech Lamp has a touch sensitive domed head, which allows the user to turn the light on, as well as select from a variety of colors simply by touching it. Additionally, the lamp has a speaker built in that can be hooked up to your MP3 player. The Room Tech duo are due out in September and will retail for £39.99 ($79) each.

Given Gizmodo writers mostly work from their beds, the biggest chore in the morning is turning on the light; we're just too lazy to pull the blinds up. Frankly, how we got by without the Room Tech series is quite beyond us. We're already in line. [Pocket-lint]

They lose their mojo somewhat, once you see them in broad daylight. [Anke Weiss via Dezeen]

[MoCo Loco via Crave]

If this lamp had been available to light up those long, lonely evenings, and throw patterns on his matching Darth Vader bed linen, Schooooooooooooo, then maybe he'd have been so scared at night that he wouldn't have crossed over. Schooooooooooooo. Maybe he'd have become Celine Dion's marimba player, or a dancer at the Folies Bergere, Schooooooooooooo, maybe he'd be working his ass off as a Giz intern, so we could send him out on coffee runs and force him to do the housework when we're too busy. Schooooooooooooo. I think he'd have become a furniture designer if he'd had one of these $40 buck lamps in his room.

My throat hurts. [Collectors Gallery via GeekAlerts]

These desk lights are made of genuine, disused (we hope), moped parts. They are designed individually to exact customer requirements. Yes, you guessed it, they are not cheap; prices range from $1772 - $2044. You cannot put a price on high fashion, made of junkyard scraps or not! The fittings are all the real deal, apart from the lamp itself; a road legal light on your bedside table would probably be better at blinding you. Not much use when you need light to read that terrible Dan Brown book all your friends think is so cool.

If you are thinking of whipping your wallet out, do not do it. Instead, take it out in a calm manner and call Mr. Leopardi, tell him you have just taken your wallet out in a cool and collected fashion and would very much wish to purchase one of his splendid lighting products. We offer you this good advice because Mr. Leopardi, who builds these fantastic artworks, does so from scratch. He takes his sweet time too, possibly because they are expertly crafted and they take ages to get down to perfection. Alternatively, it could be because Mr. Leopardi is in fact a big-time gangster and does not like to be rushed. We can deduce this from our astute observations that all gangsters enjoy the finer things in life and have names ending in vowels. Who would have thought the Godfather would have been such a great learning resource? (The last comment was a joke; Mr. Leopardi is not a gangster in any underworld, he is a colloquial gangster because his lamps are so cool he makes other lamp designers look like poo. Lawsuit averted). [Product Page via Shiny Shiny].

Users of the system are identified by a smart card, which slots into the base of the lamp, or andon, where there is a projector. By swapping cards, friends can find out what the other person is up to merely by slotting someone else's card into their andon. The projector takes input from a video camera in the other person's home and, via software processing, reduces the video input to nothing more than an outline of the person whose card is in the slot, displaying it on the inside wall of the lamp.

The prototype uses a touch screen on the lamp, enabling the user to make a voice call merely by touching the silhouette of the person he or she wants to talk to. Each andon can display up to four people's silhouettes on their screens.

According to Mr Yasuda, a post-graduate student in Media Design at Japan's Keio University, the Teleshadow preserves the privacy of its users, unlike video, which can give away info that people would rather remained private. [BBC News]

These little stainless steel lights look a lot bigger in these pictures—just imagine them about the size and shape of an elongated C-battery flashlight, and you get the idea. Too bad the company's asking $71 for each one, because it looks like there's about three dollars' worth of materials involved. LEDs are already commonplace; too bad trinket purveyors (and their customers) haven't heard the news yet. [Home Temptations, via Technabob]

Or maybe it's just that, under our sweaty, pit-stained t-shirts, the writers of Gizmodo are really inherently cute. Love handles are sexy, and bad breathe is just another term for pheromone. One thing's for sure: we're picking up some booze and top hats asap to find out. [product via uberreview]

Product Page [via technabob]

Lucky the Dachshund Accent Lamp [Via Nerd Approved]

In any case, $99 gives you one bulb-lamp, which you should probably store in a place where you won't accidentally trip, knock over, and embed shards of glass and fireflies in your face. – Jason Chen

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