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more about #light Lunargent: You can get thick walled glass bulbs at most big Crafts stores (ie: Hobby Lobby) for a couple of bucks, and they even come with a screw on brass lid. ... more » Sticks Calhoun: Oyule do anything for a buck, designers! Lighten up and create something affordable. You say watt's $650 for a well-designed product, I say you're dim... more » Segador: I'm assuming this is thicker glass than an actual light bulb? If not, these look amazingly unsafe. more » PN - gooapplesoft: imagine a lightbulb with the guts still inside filled with a flammable liquid. When plugged in the coil would spark the flammable liquid causing an s... more » Monty: Edison's little known precursor to the electric light bulb, apparently. It is a beautiful design, but while electricity has gotten expensive, perhaps... more » ethanlechcharles: [www.instructables.com] more » chauncy that billups: This really sounds like something Charlie from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia would have invented. Sort of like Kitten Mittens. more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Couldn't they have called it Log Light? Stump Light sounds awful (plus as this is no longer in the ground it's technically not a stump). more » Hobolicious: "My log saw something that night." Because my log - it has a light. more » DustyButt™: Well... It's better than the other kind of log they wanted to use. more » FriarNurgle: TRONCO!!! more » Kaiser-Machead: It's better than bad; it's GOOD! more » Gann: I love lamp. more » deanbmmv: It's a couple of seconds in, but ITV (UK channel) has a little clip, most likely CG, with some moths flying around a lamp. Looks kinda cool to see... more » Curves: Thats totally cool. When I was a kid we used to sit and watch the bats dive at the bugs around the street lights. We used to throw a pepple up to tr... more » maven2k: Wow, the ones hat make a perfect curly-q are pretty cool. It kind of looks like a the beginning of a really old movie. more » OCEntertainment: Interesting way of tracking the paths the bugs fly. I'm surprised how many of them flew in recognizable patterns (like the spiral-y ones), instead of ... more » DustyButt™: You should check out the "Magic Made Out of Street Walkers & Bugs" series. Revolting, yet captivating. more » Nick: darn rednecks and your backyard entertainment. more » Xeno: This needs that sticky touchstone material on the bottom. Then you could stick it on the wall! more » -
#watches
Stanley/Brando Watch Has a Built in LED Flashlight
Joining it's brethren the compass, tape measure and calculator-ruler watch is this flashlight watch. Is it an official Stanley gadget? I dunno. But I still find it inspired: all watches should have built-in LED flashlights. More » -
#light
Oyule Light Bulbs: The Cheekiest Light Bulb Around
Oyule Light Bulbs are filled with paraffin and use a wick instead of a filament, so basically they become what the light bulb replaced: A paraffin lamp. More » -
#furniture
Stump Light: Light From a Stump
Egg Collective's Stump Light is exactly what it sounds like. It'd be a thematically appropriate bedside table-light combination if you've got a cabin in the woods, or a seriously dilapidated urban apartment. [Unpluggd] -
#lights
Gorgeous Magic Made Out of Street Lights and Bugs
I mean, it looks like magic to me. But it's really just a series of long exposures of bugs, flying under a street light. Which somehow makes it more incredible. [Vimeo via Nick Bilton] -
#light
Manually-Powered Wind-up Light Is Perfect For Bed Time
This wind-up light is like a kitchen timer, except it counts down the minutes to when you're not going to be able to see anything. More » -
#science
Universal Mirror: Imagine the Exact Opposite of an Invisibility Cloak
No, the opposite of an invisibility cloak isn't a normal jacket, smartass. This universal mirror uses metamaterials to bounce light back at the same angle from which it came, so no matter where you stand, you can see yourself perfectly. More » -
#lightbulbs
World's First Liquid-Cooled LED Lightbulb Perfectly Pairs With Silly Gaming PCs
Eternaleds announced their new Hydrolux-4 LED lightbulb, the very first liquid-cooled bulb in the world. The bulbs are incredibly energy-efficient compared to either incandescent or CFL bulbs, and come with a price tag to match. More » -
#bath
Fresh Fruity Floating Bath Favors
Do these floating bath fruits actually do anything? Other than draining three AAA batteries and lighting up your water in a rainbow of colors, no. [Himeyashop via Technabob via Boing Boing Gadgets] -
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#gadgets
LightLane Virtual Bike Path to Become a Reality
Be happy, bicyclists of the world, because the lasertastic LightLane personal bike path is going to be a reality soon. It's already in the production engineering phase, as this demonstration video shows: More » -
#epiphanies
Google Street View Car Sees the Light
God has been found, and in the most unlikely of places: Southern California. Well, either it's God, or the Street View cameras take a second to adjust to bright light, coming out of a tunnel. Probably God, though. [Thanks, Jordan!] -
#leds
LED Branch Light Lets You Add As Much or Little Fixture as You Want
Bruno Fosi's LED Branch Light lets you install wacky LED lights in your home with a modular fixture. Not enough branching artsiness? Add more. Too much? Take some off. Options people, options. [Coroloft via Core77] -
#lighting
Let The Fried Egg Guide You To The Right Path
Indeed, this magical fried egg has the power to guide you to the right path. That is to say, it can help you find the bathroom in the middle of the night. More » -
#video
Light As Performance Art
Light performance photography is impressive enough, but shoving these light performance photographs into a video and putting a Depeche Mode-like music track on it? We're sold. [Hacknmod via Boing Boing Gadgets] -
#design
Stardust Light Furniture Opens Plenty of Possibilities for Tasteless Bachelors
Stardust is a set of sofas and pillows that illuminate from within. Add a rotating disco ball, lava lamps, and a couple of awesome Philips LivingColors lights, and your psychedelic apartment will be complete. More » -
#flashlight
Convenient Illumination, Thy Name Is Magnetic LED Mine
As long as you live in a submarine, a refrigerator or a steel box, this Striker magnetic LED mine will be extremely useful for odd-angle illumination. If not, not as much. $9 dudes! More » -
#games
Nutter Holds Victim With Sega Light Phaser for 10 Hours
Those Brazilians seem to have a problem with gaming and kidnapping. This time it was a crazy guy who used a Sega Light Phaser—from the good old Master System—to kidnap a woman for ten hours. More » -
#mirrors
Mathematician Creates Impossible, Rule-Bending Mirrors
Andrew Hicks is a mathematician. And he uses those math skills, coupled with a little computer algorithm assistance, to create mirrors that accomplish feats like reflecting text without turning the writing backwards. More » -
#light
Dr. Strangelove Light Might Provoke a War
Planning on starting a nuclear war between the superpowers? You've gotta have the proper lighting for such activities, such as the AIRFLITE light, which was inspired by the war room in Dr. Strangelove. More » -
#decorating
The Bazooka Light Is All ShhhhhhfeewwwwwwPKKOOOOWWWWWW
Is your little boy or girl afraid of the dark? Well those times are over, friend. More » -
#diy
Bytelight Turns Old RAM Into a Lamp
The Bytelight is a homemade lamp made out of 54 obsolete SIMMs, RAM you don't need anymore. More »


