To ensure they stay upright, there's a magnet placed in the base of the bulb that corresponds to one in the acrylic base. But if you're stylish and safe enough to have an open flame on your desk, you'd better be rich, too—there are only 66 sets available, selling for $650 each. [Craziest Gadgets via Gizmag]

It's great for bedtime reading, either turning itself off after you fell asleep, or before, to indicate that you should go to sleep. [Yanko via Dvice]

Normal mirrors reflect light back at a 90-degree angle, but this universal mirror reflects light, including microwaves and lasers, back in the exact same direction from which it originated. It uses metamaterials, structures smaller than the light's wavelength, to force said light to bounce back at this specific angle. Because metamaterials are so difficult to create, this universal mirror is only 1x10 centimeters in size, and can only reflect light with longer wavelengths (like microwaves).

Invisibility cloaks use these same metamaterials to guide light around an object instead of sending it back out, and while the opposite may not seem as cool, it may have just as many uses. It could be used for radar location, deflection laser weaponry and as a general-purpose shield. The tech is still a few years off, but it's very futuristic and interesting stuff. [MSNBC]

The bulbs, which cost $35 each (!), are rated for 35,000 hours of use and only consumes 4W of electricity (compared to a 25W incandescent), which means if you're afraid of the dark and run it 8 hours a day for an entire year, it'll only cost $1.75. It's fully dimmable and, unlike other LED lights, cool to the touch, thanks to the oh-so-hardcore liquid cooling. The bulbs come in "warm white" and "daylight" flavors, and are available now. [Eternaleds via Engadget]

The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.As you remember, Lightlane was just a very clever concept in a design competition. Apparently the response was so overwhelming from bicyclists all over the world that the inventors actually decided to make it into a commercial product.

Apart from the "super-bright red LEDs," LightLane uses two high visibility Diode-Pumped Solid State green lasers to draw a path that "protects" the biker on the street. Yes, it won't protect bikers as much as if it used Boeing's missile-destroying laser, but it will be a great alert for drivers in poor lit roads. Not to talk about the psychological deterrent factor of seeing the bicyclist's safety space marked on the asphalt. Lightlane via Coolhunting]

Why would anyone want a fried egg push button nightlight? I'll be dammed if I know—but if you already have the cereal lamp, this egg would really balance out your crazy plastic breakfast. [Gadget4All via Pocket-Lint]

These new models are called Mappamondo (Globe), Bucco Bianco (White Hole), and Galassia (Galaxy). They are made of Via Lattea—italian for the raspberry-flavored Milky Way—a white fabric assembled around carbon-based black threads which they claim is indestructible.

The best thing about the Stardust light furniture is that it allows you to role play Austin Powers at night, while letting you be Howard Hughes during the day just by changing the space cakes with milk bottles. [Meritalia via Gearfuse]

Then again, sink work and car work would probably benefit from a nicely-placed light. Assuming, of course, that it was brighter than you'd assume a lousy $9 mine light would be. [Striker Hand Tools via Lifehacker via DVICE]

According to Brazilian new site Globo, the man invaded a house in Samambaia, a city near Brazil's capital Brazilia, to get them to pay a debt of 42 reales ($111). However, instead of breaking their legs with a baseball bat, the guy tried to pew-pew them with a Sega Light Phaser, which if funny until you see the two kitchen knives he was also carrying with him.

After ten hours of negotiation, the man liberated the woman. According to the police, the man had previous charges for killing and drug abuse, which explains the use of the Light Phaser. [Kotaku]

His mirrors can reflect wider angles, capture 360-degree panoramas without distortion and even reflect vast amounts of infrared data (to measure body temperature).

New Scientist has a complete blow-by-blow of Hicks' creations, but this lead shot is of a wide angle mirror free of distortion—lines that are straight in the real world remain perfectly straight on the mirror. Who would need such a thing? It's implemented in a stair-climbing robot that requires precision angle information for each step. [New Scientist]

The ring-shaped lamp contains four curved florescent tubes and shoots 80% of its light upwards to reflect off the ceiling. This should provide a soft, evenly distributed light for you to view your classified documents and maps by. The flame-red lacquer isn't exactly what I imagined from the movie, but hey, it was black and white so for all I know this is perfectly accurate. [Yanko Design]

The Bazooka Light (along with the uzi, sniper rifle and pistol) is not some plastic novelty. It's an all-metal lamp—one that will feel like a real gun in your child's hands as he or she puts a stop to the Boogie Man's reign of terror once and for all.

Sadly, these lamps are limited edition and probably cost a premium price. But what's the smile of a child worth, their small face beaming in the aura of luminescent weaponry. [Twenty First Gallery via Nerd Approved]

It's pretty cool looking, I guess. But come on. You have to be a very serious nerd to have 54 extra SIMMs kicking around and also think that using them as decoration would be cool. But hey, who am I to judge? [Make]

The $50 Bird Pendant Light by Sweden-based artist Hung Ming Chen is a simple brass fixture that squeezes onto a bare bulb. And while we're guessing it might get a little hot, there's certainly no easier way to half-assedly decorate your basement. Now just to gather the motivation to actually replace that burned out lightbulb first. [UrbanOutfitters via Nerd Approved]