As you can see from the video, the switch functions wirelessly and can be placed anywhere that's convenient. It can be turned on and off with a single breath and it also features a handy night light mode. Plus, when you are feeling strong enough to lift a single finger, it can be turned on and off the old fashioned way. Sigh...if only you were still with us Billy Mays. [Amazon via zedomax]

The Price: $25

The Verdict: Buy one! If you're anything like me and wake up multiple times in the middle of the night to drink water, you'll be glad you have this Nite Coaster to ensure that you can see the target clearly in your half-asleep haze.

Even if you can feel your way to your glass or glasses or phone with your eyes closed in the dark, the fact that it's illuminated means you can reach it much faster without the risk of knocking stuff over. Less grope time means more sleep time.

And if you're worried about this being overly bright or overly sensitive to motion—it's not. The light is just bright enough so that you can see in the dark, but not bright enough to even match something like a cellphone screen or something that can wake you up when you're asleep. Plus it makes your drinking glass look cool. [Nite Coaster]

Why do I love it so much? Because it's an iPhone charger AND a night light. Is a further explanation necessary? The reviveLITE cradles your iPhone on its left while plugged in and illuminating your hallways and bathrooms. It's $40, which is expensive for a night light and expensive for an iPhone charger, but not that bad for an iPhone charger that's also a night light. [Scosche]

Like most nightlights, this one has a swivel base, but it's not just made of some cheap plastic—it's crafted out of fine ceramic and uses a seven-watt bulb. Best of all, it's priced about the same as the jar of decent popskull, $13. Yeah, we know about stuff like that. After all, not all your humble Gizmodian narrators are fancy-schmancy New York dwellers, that's for sure. [Uberreview]

The concept is that is by the time you go to sleep, the sand has run out and the night light goes off, saving a token, and perhaps symbolic, amount of electricity. There's precious little information available about the design, but we're assuming there must be efficient LEDs providing the illumination, and they won't need a whole lot of battery power to keep this attractive fixture lit each night. [Yanko Design]

Yesterday we saw a more traditional beer mug lamp and I pondered why these beer lamps have so much head, and I think i realized it. If there is not head on the beer lamp it will just look like a giant mug of piss, and nobody likes that. –Travis Hudson

Product Page [Via nerd approved]

USB Aquarium with floating Aliens [Newlaunches]

Simply look at the clock face, and the sleeping rabit or wide-awake rabbit will tell you exactly what you should be doing right now. The best part of this clock would be if your kids regularly wake up at 4:00 am, the sleeping bunny would tell them not to stay in bed and not come and wake you up. Yeah, that'll probably work until 4:30 am. – Jason Chen

Product Page [Childrenslighting via Shiny Shiny via Oh Gizmo via uber gizmo]

Product Page [thinkgeek, via Coolness Roundup]

Short of buying a $60 clock, here's another solution: if you ever wake up in the middle of the night wondering what time it is, all you need to do is just call a random phone number. Whoever answers will immediately tell you, for example, "WTF, it's three o'clock in the morning!" – Charlie White

Product Page [nova68, via shiny shiny]

Many of our friends have chihuahuas and we love them anyway despite this major character flaw; we've even been known to regularly kill their work productivity by sending them links to abominations like stores that stock only chihuahua clothes.

Having said all of that, now perhaps you'll understand how disturbed we are by our attraction to Kathleen Walsh's Carlos Night Light, a porcelain chihuahua wearing a linen Elizabethan collar that lights up from inside his little body. This intense dose of pathos will set you back $160.

carlos night-light by kathleen walsh [unicahome]

glowing carpet concept [Design Spotter]

Egg Lamps [J. Schatz via uncrate]