Lighting

Rechargeable LED Umbrella Light

If you’re a denizen of late-night deck dining, here’s a creative lighting idea to enhance the ambience of your after-hours activities. This rechargeable 24 LED Umbrella Light can be clipped around most any umbrella pole, and you can point it down at the table or up into the umbrella for soft indirect lighting. The $79.95…

Gadgets Charlie White Jul 13

Barry Table Lamp: LEDs Gone Wild

Looking for a new table lamp that no one has seen before? The Barry Table Lamp uses a circle of LEDs in its half-orb-shaped base, shining up into a reflective surface in the top half that results in pleasingly ambient light. If we could read Swedish and four other languages, we could tell you where…

Gadgets Charlie White Jul 7

Solar-Powered Flickering Candle Lanterns

Smarthome’s Old-Fashioned Candle Lanterns harken back to the day when people had to watch television by candlelight. They’re solar powered and do their simulated flickering thing all night long, looking just like old-timey wax candles are nestled inside. They’re made of glass and metal, and can be mounted using a ground stake and hanging ring,…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 27

Lumen Lamp: Decorate With Shadows

Lumen is an oil lamp made of stainless steel that uses an object that lighting designers call a cookie (cuculoris), a pattern which blocks light, to cast a shadow on the wall behind it. Brooklyn artist Adam Frank designed the oil lamp which uses clean-burning 17-hour fuel cells (we’re thinking this might be a gel…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 23

D’light Retro USB Lamp

This is not as cool as the USB lava lamp, but we like the D’light USB light with lampshade, where not only is it stylish with its warm retro glow, but it might be practical if you need to see the keyboard on those nights when the lights are low. http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/retro/index.php#tiny-usb-lava-lamp-109865 Take it on the…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 16

Tramp Lamps

Not sure how we ever missed these when they were making such a ruckus two months ago, but now there are quite a few new versions available of the Tramp Lamp, illuminated lingerie that might just cast the perfect glow on your boudoir. The lamp’s maker, Kelly Butler, takes “vintage lingerie” and firms it up…

Gadgets Charlie White Jun 13

Ahora Table Lamp: Si!

We’re looking to spruce up our world headquarters, and the Ahora Table Lamp might be just the right touch. Designed by Ron Zinn, there are six layers of different-colored planes, reflecting light among its undulating waves. Available in a cool- or warm-colored version, it’s $300 for the large 23-inch lamp, $250 for the 16-inch smaller…

Gadgets Charlie White May 17

Herman Miller LED Leaf-Light

Got a fancy designer desk but only have a crappy Ikea lamp to go on top? Grab this Herman Miller LED Leaf-Light and decorate your office in style. Combining a metallic crane body with energy-saving LEDs, this is both economical and extravagant at the same time. Oh, those paradoxical designers! Yves Behar Leaf Personal Light…

Gadgets Jason Chen May 15

Solar Light: Outside by Day, Inside by Night

Designer Damion O’Sullivan created a concept for a solar lamp with 36 solar cells, each connected to an LED bulb. Hang it outside during the day to collect its energy from the sun, and then bring it inside via its carrying handle for use at night. Or just leave it hanging on a tree for…

Gadgets Charlie White May 15

DaySwitch Turns Off the Light For You

DaySwitch claims to reduce lighting costs by 30% by using a simple concept: when it gets bright in the room, turn off the lights. Why people can’t do this themselves, we don’t know, but it might have something to do with getting up off their lazy asses every once in a while. Researchers at Rensselaer…

Gadgets Charlie White May 8

Moooi Animal Thing

The horse lamp looks really awesome but unless you live in a big space or have a seriously quirky personality, we imagine it would get real old real quick. The pig table we love and would actually use but we are indifferent to the rabbit lamp. Easter is over, no reason to cut the little…

Gadgets Gizmodo.com Apr 18

OLEDs Create Sheets of Bright White Light

Looks like the 130-year-old incandescent light bulb’s days are numbered, because OLEDs (organic light emitting diodes)—the same devices that light up screens in cellphones—are now able to emit brilliant white light when electric current is applied. They can be printed in thin sheets, and can turn walls, ceilings, furniture, or anything else into a light-emitting…

Gadgets Charlie White Apr 14

Carlos Chihuahua Night Light

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…

Gadgets Gizmodo.com Apr 12

Rechargeable LED Lamps

Rechargeable LED lamps are fantastic to have around the house because they give off soft light just like candles, but you can leave them anywhere you like without worrying about burning the place down. The Rotondo (left, above) is one of three mouth-blown glass LED lamps Lightology sells for $125.10, all of them are water-resistant,…

Gadgets Gizmodo.com Apr 11

Candle with Matchbox

We love the elegance of Jeremy Walton’s paraffin candle with its 40 hours of burning time and built-in matchbox so much that we hesitate to tell you about the stereotypical Maxim/FHM-reading guy we used to go out with whom this would be a perfect gift for, if only it also had a drawer for condoms…

Gadgets Gizmodo.com Apr 10

Obey the USB Tiki V3

Obey the volcano gods in grand style with the USB Tiki V3, where somehow the juju finds its way inside the almighty Tiki’s eyes, making them glow and pulsate to music. Set it to fade and cycle through a variety of colors, pick your favorite color or just let it react to sounds around it—whichever…

Gadgets Charlie White Apr 10

Mood Light Shelf

Mount this Mood Light Shelf from Generate Design vertically or horizontally and be dazzled by millions of colors that you can control with an RF remote. With ultra-bright LEDs inside, it’s the newest member of the Mood Light collection. Available now for $229. Product page Thanks, Michael!

Gadgets Charlie White Apr 10

Aqua Glow Tub Light: Chromatherapy for $20

Adding a little color to your bath just got a lot cheaper. Until the $20 Aqua Glow Tub Light became available, if you wanted to enhance your bathing experience with chromatherapy you’d have to pay $8900 for the Kohler Sok chromatherapy bath. The Aqua Glow Tub Light is a waterproof fixture made of ABS plastic…

Gadgets Charlie White Apr 5

Multicolored LED Lamp with Ethernet Interface

Some might think this LED lamp is scary-looking, but we think it might go well in our mad scientist-themed living room. It was designed a few years ago, and its bill of materials ran upwards of $3700 (which would probably cost much less today), but still. Look at it. It has 504 LEDs, it weighs…

Gadgets Charlie White Apr 3

DIY Photo Lighting System

Photo lighting systems range from massively expensive to outrageously expensive. I know there are a few other there for $99 and whatnot, but this entire system costs $75, a steal at twice the price. What we have here are a set of hot lights on a tripod with blue-tinted photography bulbs, a diffuser made of…

Tech News Johnb Mar 30

Rechargeable LED Umbrella Light

Barry Table Lamp: LEDs Gone Wild

Solar-Powered Flickering Candle Lanterns

Lumen Lamp: Decorate With Shadows

D’light Retro USB Lamp

Tramp Lamps

Ahora Table Lamp: Si!

Herman Miller LED Leaf-Light

Solar Light: Outside by Day, Inside by Night

DaySwitch Turns Off the Light For You

Moooi Animal Thing

OLEDs Create Sheets of Bright White Light

Carlos Chihuahua Night Light

Rechargeable LED Lamps

Candle with Matchbox

Obey the USB Tiki V3

Mood Light Shelf

Aqua Glow Tub Light: Chromatherapy for $20

Multicolored LED Lamp with Ethernet Interface

DIY Photo Lighting System

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