Lighting

The Modern Lantern Brightens Rooms Without Hogging Outlets

Rearranging your furniture is easy enough but your lighting tends to stay where its been since you moved in—limited by the location of available outlets. Or it was limited at least, until the folks at Modern Lantern designed a table lamp that doesn’t need them. The Modern Lantern is powered by a Li-Ion battery seated…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jan 30

This 15,000 Lumens LED Light Cannon Will Turn Night to Day

You can forget about hanging it from your belt, because this miniature sun—masquerading as a flashlight—is heavy enough to need two hands to operate. And with 15,000 lumens, the XM18 is bright enough to illuminate a small planet. As you can see, it’s actually composed of 18 smaller LED flashlight components, all wrapped in a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 30

Turn Your Old Airbus A300 Into a Lovely Hanging Lamp

If you’re anything like me, you like to keep your fleet of private jets up to date. But selling an old Airbus on Craigslist can be a pain, so artist Paul Coudamy hacks them apart and turns them into hanging lamps. His F-Light—a chandelier for aviation fanatics—is made from the interior walls of a decommissioned…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 30

Flat Panel Anglepoise Lamps Are the Future

How do you fit a humongoid Anglepoise lamp in your home? Reduce it down to two-dimensions and pack it full of LEDs, of course. Forged of birch and steel, Giles Godwin-Brown’s Nepa Lamp will sit flat on a wall, or spin out into the third dimension and totally screw with your head. I love it.…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jan 29

Self-Adjusting Headlamp Knows If You Want To See Near Or Far

When you’re trekking through the great outdoors in the middle of the night, you need your hands free for reading maps, clearing obstacles, and fighting off bears. So Petzl’s new Nao headlamp makes all the brightness and focus adjustments for you. Billed as one of the first intelligent headlamps, the Nao (pronounced now) features a…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 21

Adorable Plant-Inspired Solar Lights Charge by Day, Shine by Night

If you’re prone to unintentionally killing plants, these Petal solar lights from Mohzy might be a good way to ease back into gardening. You’ll still need to ensure they get plenty of sunlight, but won’t die if you screw that up. Instead, if you’ve planted them in the wrong place—which just involves jamming their plastic…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 19

Question Block Lamp Won’t Grant You a Single Extra Life

I’m not entirely sure how Etsy hasn’t already been done-in by copyright lawyers, but I’m glad they’re still around. Because where else are you going to find awesome unlicensed stuff like this Super Mario question block lamp? In Mario’s world these inquisitive brick structures dot the landscape, providing random power-ups and benefits to the protagonist…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 16

When Apple Orchards Become Personal Power Plants

Any stroll through a grade school science fair proves that potatoes are a simple source of electricity. But did you know that enough apples, about 300, can power an LED lamp? Time to get planting! This remarkable image was taken by photographer Caleb Charland, who found that it only took about 10 apples, wired in…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 5

Animated Sky Ceiling Lights Make Your Cubicle Slightly Less Depressing

If you’re low on the corporate ladder at work you’re probably stuck under a bank of fluorescent lights without a window in sight. But with Fraunhofer’s new LED enhanced ceilings, a beautiful sky view doesn’t require a corner office. Instead of buzzing tubes interspersed between foam tiles, this new office lighting system uses a series…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 5

Soft Serve Cone Lamps: What? No Sprinkles?

Inspired by Mr. Whippy, a UK-based ice cream seller, Alex Garnett created these hanging pendant lamps that look like soft-serve ice cream cones when you install a twisted compact fluorescent bulb. The effect works particularly well with the smaller cones, but the waffle variety? I’m not convinced. I want to see a big scoop of…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Jan 3

Incandescent Lamps Will Never Be As Cute As These AnimaLamps

There are countless reasons to upgrade the incandescent bulbs in your home to fluorescents or LEDs, but none more compelling than these adorable AnimaLamps. Saving the planet by reading with an improperly proportioned giraffe? I’m sold! The $30 portable bunny, giraffe, and monkey LED lamps are battery-powered so they can be perched anywhere. And they…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jan 2

Hospitals Just Got Less Depressing Thanks to Philips’ Mood Lighting

Positive thinking is an important part of a patient’s recovery, but it’s hard to muster in a place with drab fluorescent lighting. So Philips is hoping to improve the mood of hospital rooms with their color changing HealWell lighting system. In recent years Philips has been really gung-ho on the idea of chromatherapy improving our…

Health Andrew Liszewski Dec 21

Someday Your e-Reader Will Be Usable In the Dark

E-ink displays are great in sunlight, but useless in the dark. So with hopes of ridding the world of stupid reading lamps, this super thin film promises to add a front light to your e-reader without sacrificing its battery life. Depending on the size of the device, Flex Lighting’s light guide film can evenly illuminate…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Dec 14

Dyson $860 LED Desk Lamp Will Run For Almost Forty Years

Like father like son. If you thought James Dyson’s vacuums were expensive, his son wants you to pony up almost $860 for an LED desk lamp that promises over 37 years of illumination thanks to space-age heatsink technology. With a design inspired by construction cranes, the CSYS LED Task Light from Jake Dyson can be…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Dec 13

7 Holiday Decorating Tools For the Lazy Reveler

Even if you’re chock full of Christmas spirit, it doesn’t make putting up holiday decorations any easier. Particularly since you’ll just have to tear them all down in a month. So if you’d rather spend the next few weeks cozied up next to a warm fire than hanging ornaments and tinsel, here are seven tools…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Dec 6

7 Tools To Holiday Decorate Like a Geek

With Thanksgiving officially come and gone you can move onto the next important holiday tradition—Christmas and Hanukkah decorations. One of the best ways to express who you are this time of year. Whether loud, subdued, simple or over-the-top, your holiday decor says a lot about you. So if you consider yourself a bonafide geek and…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Nov 29

Ledo’s Lustworthy LED Lights Are Another Reason To Hate Incandescents

They’re not quite as traditional looking as Panasonic’s recently developed incandescent bulb replacement, and that’s exactly why I love what German LED maker Ledo has done with their new retrofit LED lights. With a design that’s as lustworthy as the sleekest smartphone, they give consumers yet another reason to make the switch. https://gizmodo.com/this-edison-bulb-with-an-led-heart-makes-us-love-incand-5859649 All in…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Nov 16

This Edison Bulb with an LED Heart Makes Us Love Incandescents Again

Like an obnoxious great uncle who’s overstayed his welcome, horribly inefficient incandescent bulbs are still lingering around because we’re just used to them. So Panasonic has designed a new LED alternative with a visible filament and clear glass that looks like the classic Edison bulb, while still being remarkably more energy efficient. https://gizmodo.com/the-edison-bulb-awesome-then-still-awesome-now-5831561 There’s no…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski Nov 15

These Aren’t the Droids You’re Looking For. They’re Lamps.

These Droid lamps, designed by the Jangir Maddadi Design Bureau didn’t arrive at their name by accident. Their looks takes inspiration from robots. Yep, boxy, metallic, blippy, bleepy robots. And maybe Star Wars. Both ends of the lamp project light, though you control whether one both of those ends is powered on. The lamp uses…

Tech News Adrian Covert Nov 12

With Blinds Like These, Who Needs Windows?

Winter’s quickly approaching and that subterranean studio apartment of yours won’t be getting brighter any time soon. So, instead of knocking out walls for an impromptu Sun room, just fake it with these illuminated faux-shades. Designed by Makoto Hirahara, Bright Blinds are constructed from electroluminescent sheets and controlled just like conventional window treatments. Tug on…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Nov 9

The Modern Lantern Brightens Rooms Without Hogging Outlets

This 15,000 Lumens LED Light Cannon Will Turn Night to Day

Turn Your Old Airbus A300 Into a Lovely Hanging Lamp

Flat Panel Anglepoise Lamps Are the Future

Self-Adjusting Headlamp Knows If You Want To See Near Or Far

Adorable Plant-Inspired Solar Lights Charge by Day, Shine by Night

Question Block Lamp Won’t Grant You a Single Extra Life

When Apple Orchards Become Personal Power Plants

Animated Sky Ceiling Lights Make Your Cubicle Slightly Less Depressing

Soft Serve Cone Lamps: What? No Sprinkles?

Incandescent Lamps Will Never Be As Cute As These AnimaLamps

Hospitals Just Got Less Depressing Thanks to Philips’ Mood Lighting

Someday Your e-Reader Will Be Usable In the Dark

Dyson $860 LED Desk Lamp Will Run For Almost Forty Years

7 Holiday Decorating Tools For the Lazy Reveler

7 Tools To Holiday Decorate Like a Geek

Ledo’s Lustworthy LED Lights Are Another Reason To Hate Incandescents

This Edison Bulb with an LED Heart Makes Us Love Incandescents Again

These Aren’t the Droids You’re Looking For. They’re Lamps.

With Blinds Like These, Who Needs Windows?

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