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Oxygen Tank Lamp Is Sure to Make Loved Ones Smile

I can’t speak for everyone here, but most of us have 3, 4 or 5 industrial-sized oxygen tanks just rolling around, taking up precious space in our homes. Well here’s a tip that’ll put Martha Stewart’s upcoming book Oxygen Tank Decorating Made Easy straight to the bottom of the charts. Just stick a lampshade on…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 19

Say “Merry Xmas KKK!” With a Nice Burning Cross Light

As the season for joy nears, people are already getting ready for their Xmas lighting decoration. And if you are a store manager at the American Family Association, that means a burning cross in your doorstep. Because nothing says “Let’s celebrate Jesus’ birthday” better than the symbol of his dead in glowing LED glory, 210…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Nov 19

Dozen Egg Lamp is Part of an Illuminating Breakfast

A bowl of Froot Loops and and a couple eggs sounds like a delicious part of a balanced breakfast to me, but in this case both may be a little hard to swallow. Like the Froot Loop lamp, Ukrainian designer Igor Pinigin’s “Egg Light” takes an everyday foodstuff and transforms it into a functional work…

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 18

Colossus of Rhodes to be Rebuilt as Colossal Light Sculpture

The Colussus of Rhodes, one of the original Seven Wonders of the World, is going to be rebuilt as an innovative light sculpture—the “world’s largest light installation” according to its architect. And it’ll be even bigger than the 120-foot original, which was destroyed in an earthquake in 226BC.The new architectural piece will be between 200…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 18

Solar Vertical Lamp Blind Charges-Up in Daylight, Lights Rooms At Night

Sometimes a simple idea will make you react with ambivalence, but designers Yoon-Hui Kim and Eun-Kyung Kim’s Solar Vertical Lamp probably isn’t one of those. At its core it’s a solar-powered lighting system, but unusually it’s embedded in standard window blinds. During the day tiny solar panels charge up the individual lighting elements (LEDs?), and…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 13

Mathmos Glowing Wind Lights Probably Best For Breezier Locales

Mathmos‘ eight-inch tall windlights are pretty simple—just a generator, 2.4-inch propeller and two LED lights—but that doesn’t stop them from having their own cute, glowing eco-charm. Basically when the wind blows strongly enough, they light up: dot them about your garden and you’d have a great display, but only if the wind is blowing. If…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 13

Fiber Optics May Change The Way You View Wallpaper

As a prospective homebuyer, I have watched enough HGTV to learn a few things: people like open floorplans and they like big kitchens with stainless steel appliances—but they don’t like wallpaper. Still, that has not deterred designers from trying to make wallpaper appealing again. One such designer named Camilla Diedrich is attempting to achieve this…

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 12

Turn Your Broken CD Case Shards Into Mini LED Light Sabers For Your Wall

Using a white LED heatshrinked to fit on the ends of these pieces of broken CD tray plastic, Keith Neufeld created a really cool lighting system for an art installation, which could just as easily find its way onto your wall at home, if you are one for soldering and breadboarding. The whole thing is…

Tech News John Mahoney Nov 10

Kindle Goes All Old-Fashioned, With Periscope Booklight Case

Maybe I’m wrong, but a big part of the goodness of the Kindle e-reader is it’s easy-to-carryness, and its whizzy digital modernity: That’s where this Periscope Lighted Folio for Kindle gizmo has me confused. Because at one stroke it seems to take the Kindle soaring back 20 years, with a faux-leather case with built-in notepad…

Commerce Kit Eaton Nov 10

Retromodo: Electric Light is Strange and Terrifying

You know, I thought electric light here in the 19th century was the devil’s work. In fact, I must say that when I walked into this room filled with the strange candle-less fire I almost soiled my pantaloons. Thankfully, Mr. Edison’s disclaimer on the wall put my mind at ease. [NextNature via Boing Boing Gadgets]

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 5

Flat Light Bulbs Are an Incandescent Innovation

The world may be moving on to CFLs, but at least one designer is still thinking about how to improve the classic incandescent bulb. Joonhuyn Kim’s concept is simple: flat bulbs take up less space and make them easier (and cheaper) to store and transport. A great idea, if not a little late. Perhaps makers…

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 5

Neon Scarface Rifle Lamp Threatens Consequences Beyond Tackiness

You may be tempted to buy the Neon Scarface Rifle Lamp, and you may even notice that it has an affordable $67 price tag. But we don’t recommend the purchase because somewhere, deep beneath the Earth’s crust, there lives a little mole-like man who keeps a very large list, and people who buy things like…

Movies Mark Wilson Nov 5

Math Lamp Requires You To Number Crunch For Light

The arithmetic-challenged should avoid this lamp at all costs, because to turn it on, you’re required to correctly solve a math problem. From the looks of this Mingyu Jeung creation, problems appear to be of the simple add/subtract/multiply/divide variety, so you don’t need to be a math major to safely navigate your home. But if…

Tech News Adrian Covert Nov 4

17 Artsy, Architectural LED Sculptures

If you enjoy crazy lighting concepts like Anemix and Vortexx, you will love the list OObject has put together. Those first two are just a taste—there are 15 other designs to choose from. [OObject]

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 4

iBook Lamp Restrains (Holy?) Light

This iBook G4 lamp was the gift from a girlfriend to a very lucky birthday boy. Essentially just an old iBook case stuffed with fluorescent lighting tubes, the simple mod recreates the glorious Pulp Fiction briefcase effect: Those who witness the full glowing beauty of the lamp must wonder if today is the day of…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 3

Cara Lamp is Crystal-Like LED and Silver Circuit-Board Beauty

Those little interlaced blades of ice you sometimes get on the edge of ultra-cold things in wet air: that’s the image that popped into my head on seeing the Cara lamp. It’s by designer Andreas Ostwald and that fragile crystal-like shape is composed of interlocked flat white circuit boards with silver tracks, sprinkled with 70…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 30

Solar Powered “Sticker Lamps” Offer Paper-Thin Illumination

A 26 year old designer by the name of Keikko Lee has won South Korea’s first ever international design competition thanks to his new take on interior lighting. Her concept involves a paper-thin “lamp” with electroluminescent material on one side and solar panels and sensors on the other. The material would be able to stick…

Tech News Sean Fallon Oct 27

Butt-on is Probably the Most Fondleable Night Lamp Ever

When this concept nightlight popped up in the Giz editor chatroom, I had to grab it (if you’ll pardon the pun)… how could anyone resist? Pinch. On. Squeeze. Off. Pinch. On. The whole night could be whiled away with its comforting glow and tactile soft translucent silicon-based rubberyness. Uhhh…. sorry, got carried away there. That’d…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 23

Roden Crater Is Alien Landing Site Disguised as Art Installation

This is the Roden Crater, a inactive volcano northeast of Flagstaff, on the calm, dry plains of Arizona. In its sleep, it looks peaceful, harmless. Until you start climbing and reach the top of the 3-kilometer-wide mountain. Then you will be able to see the platform for extraterrestrial spaceships on its center. James Turrell says…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz Oct 16

Two Lamps One Flashlight

There have been other attempts at fusing a flashlight with a lamp, but ‘Two Lamps’ with its simple click-off rechargeable flashlight design offers up one of the most elegant solutions (similar to certain lantern camping flashlights, only probably wouldn’t suck). The flashlight may not be powerful enough to burn paper, but it would be nice…

Tech News Sean Fallon Oct 7

Oxygen Tank Lamp Is Sure to Make Loved Ones Smile

Say “Merry Xmas KKK!” With a Nice Burning Cross Light

Dozen Egg Lamp is Part of an Illuminating Breakfast

Colossus of Rhodes to be Rebuilt as Colossal Light Sculpture

Solar Vertical Lamp Blind Charges-Up in Daylight, Lights Rooms At Night

Mathmos Glowing Wind Lights Probably Best For Breezier Locales

Fiber Optics May Change The Way You View Wallpaper

Turn Your Broken CD Case Shards Into Mini LED Light Sabers For Your Wall

Kindle Goes All Old-Fashioned, With Periscope Booklight Case

Retromodo: Electric Light is Strange and Terrifying

Flat Light Bulbs Are an Incandescent Innovation

Neon Scarface Rifle Lamp Threatens Consequences Beyond Tackiness

Math Lamp Requires You To Number Crunch For Light

17 Artsy, Architectural LED Sculptures

iBook Lamp Restrains (Holy?) Light

Cara Lamp is Crystal-Like LED and Silver Circuit-Board Beauty

Solar Powered “Sticker Lamps” Offer Paper-Thin Illumination

Butt-on is Probably the Most Fondleable Night Lamp Ever

Roden Crater Is Alien Landing Site Disguised as Art Installation

Two Lamps One Flashlight

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