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How To Make The Geekiest Chandelier In The World [Design]





The problem with most light fittings is that they're only about style: they're the preserve of hipsters and interior designers. If you want something a little more geeky, why not make your own test tube ch...
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Shoot the Lights Off with the BANG! Lamp [Video]





Clapping your lights on and off is comically passe. Why make all that noise you can toggle the room's illumination with invisible bullets? More »



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Wi-Fi Controlled LED Tubes Make For Easy Office Upgrades [Video]





By creating these lights with the exact same form factor as a fluorescent bulb, NetLED has made it incredibly easy to upgrade the lighting in a store or office to its LED tubes, which can also be remotely...
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Ghent Light Festival Creates a Technicolor Dream Cathedral [Video]





Clark Griswold? Amateur. This is how you put on a light show—the 2012 Light Festival at Ghent, Belgium. And this 28 meter tall cathedral, the Luminarie Cagna, was its centerpiece. More »...
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The Modern Lantern Brightens Rooms Without Hogging Outlets [Video]





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 ...
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This 15,000 Lumens LED Light Cannon Will Turn Night to Day [Video]





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 ...
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Turn Your Old Airbus A300 Into a Lovely Hanging Lamp [Lighting]





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 hangin...
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Flat Panel Anglepoise Lamps Are the Future [Desired]





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 w...
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The NAO Headlamp Is Just as Bright as You Need It [Video]





Conventional headlights never seem to be the right brightness—you're either high-beaming oncoming traffic or peering into murky darkness. This new headlight from Petzl is designed to give you just en...
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Self-Adjusting Headlamp Knows If You Want To See Near Or Far [Video]





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...
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Adorable Plant-Inspired Solar Lights Charge by Day, Shine by Night [Lighting]





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 di...
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Question Block Lamp Won't Grant You a Single Extra Life [Lighting]





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 q...
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When Apple Orchards Become Personal Power Plants [Lighting]





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! More&...
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Animated Sky Ceiling Lights Make Your Cubicle Slightly Less Depressing [Lighting]





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...
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Soft Serve Cone Lamps: What? No Sprinkles? [Lights]





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. More&...
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Incandescent Lamps Will Never Be As Cute As These AnimaLamps [Lights]





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 ...
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Here Are Some More Yahoo CEO Choices: Liddell, Rosenblatt, Desmond

It’s the typically newsless time around Christmas and New Year’s, but for once there has actually been a lot going on at Yahoo.
Last week, the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s typically moribund board decided to move ahead with negotiati...
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Hospitals Just Got Less Depressing Thanks to Philips' Mood Lighting [Video]





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 col...
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Someday Your e-Reader Will Be Usable In the Dark [Video]





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 sacri...
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Dyson $860 LED Desk Lamp Will Run For Almost Forty Years [Lighting]





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 heat...
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City Lights Seen From Space Reveal How Countries Change
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 

You can tell a lot about a country from its lights.
New research suggests that NASA’s Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Operational Linescan System — a series of satellites that have been taking p...
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7 Holiday Decorating Tools For the Lazy Reveler [Video]





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. More »

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7 Tools To Holiday Decorate Like a Geek [Toolkit]





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. ...
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This Edison Bulb with an LED Heart Makes Us Love Incandescents Again [Lightbulbs]






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 alternat...
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These Aren't the Droids You're Looking For. They're Lamps. [Desired]






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 St...
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With Blinds Like These, Who Needs Windows? [Desired]






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 i...
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Old School Flash Powder Tested, Modern Flashes Still Preferred [Video]






Any experiment that ends with an explosion is worth doing, so I can understand why Tech Photo Blog wanted to test a 150 year old flash powder recipe against modern flash technology, even though it didn't...
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Glowing Slap Bracelets Now Focus on Safety Over Fashion [Led]






What originally made slap bracelets a novelty in the early 90s, now makes them an easy to use safety accessory with the addition of a few glowing LEDs and some reflective fabrics. More »
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Polaroid's Dua Flash Embraces Videographers and Photographers [Video]






Like skiers and snowboarders sharing the same powder, I envision some kind of uneasy truce between those using their DSLRs for still photography, and those using them for videography. I have no basis for ...
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Bend and Twist This Lamp Into Whatever Shape You Want [Desired]






When you have enough money, lighting up rooms can be as much a stylistic choice as a functional necessity. Originally designed in 1951, Jean Louis Domecq's lamp isn't just a classic piece of mid-century d...
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Recycling as Art and Lighting [Design]






Before you go tossing that coffee cup or plastic spoon into the garbage or even the recycling bin, why don't you send it along to artist Christian DuCharme? The man's made a name for himself making lights...
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This Optical Illusion Is Melting My Brain [Video]






Two tiles, seemingly different colors from one angle are actually the same color in different lighting. I don't get it at all. What's the trickery here? Is it the shadowplay? The lights? The tiles? I don...
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Light Your Bike At Night With Revolights [Video]






Like many bikers, Kent Frankovich pedaled at night and wondered if cars around him saw his dimly-lit tail light. He also loathed his headlamp that barely lighted his way. More »




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The Edison Bulb: Awesome Then, Still Awesome Now [Past Perfect]






The lightbulb Thomas Edison debuted in 1879 is pretty different from the standard lightbulb we use today. But the Edison—or Ferrowatt—inspired bulbs still look amazing over a century later, an...
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The Light that Changed Film [Past Perfect]






In 1903, Mariano Fortuny devised a lamp which would change film forever. Dubbed the Moda Lamp, it was the first of its kind to provide indirect lighting for movie scenes. More »





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Go Snowboarding in the Dark With This LED Headlamp [Outdoors]






Technically, the Snow Peak SnowMiner LED Headlamp is for hiking in the dark. But when you see the words snow and headlamp together, can you think of anything besides snowboarding in the dark? More ...
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Boston's Big Dig: The Deadly Engineering Gift That Keeps On Giving [Investigation]






The Big Dig, a Boston engineering boondoggle that's national news mostly because you helped us pay for it, is basically a death trap. It's killed people already, and some precariously perched lights were ...
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This Hybrid Mechanical Freak Is Actually Charming and Useful [Speakers]






The thought of cramming a desk lamp and a speaker into one body seems contrary to all laws of nature and design. A lightbulb?! A driver!? Together? Perversity! But Gem Hsin makes it work—and all pow...
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Is this the LED Bulb that Will Conquer Incandescent Light Once and for All? [Desired]


Switch Lighting believes they've got all the problems with LED lighting figured out. They say their bulb is efficient, relatively cheap and, most importantly, mimics the ambiance of a soft white lightbulb. And they've got Slate's Farhad Man...
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Light Up a Room with These Gun Lamps [Design]






I like guns. I don't like what they can do but I can't deny they're not cool. That's why a gun lamp would be perfect for me. Instead of shooting bullets it'll faux-intimidatingly illuminate the room. Yeah...
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It's Like a Giant Lite-Brite for Adults [Design]







Valentin Ruhry had the brilliant idea to take 5,000 of those orange rocker switches you normally see in surge protectors and power strips and transform them into a blank canvas on which to scrawl words (...
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The World's Most Functional Lightswitch [Home Mod]






Having a spot to hang one's keys when walking through the front door is great for the absent-minded people of the world, like myself. Even better is when it's built into the front plate of a light switch....
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Why Wouldn't You Want Arcade Buttons on Your Light Switch? [Desired]






Every time you turn on a light, you'll be reminded of those countless hours spent mashing buttons and dropping quarters into your favorite arcade cabinet. Maybe it was Street Fighter II, or possibly NBA J...
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Well At Least Those Useless Paper Books Are Good For Something [Desired]






IRL books. Psssssssssssssh. Those stupid things are just collecting dust now that I have e-readers and tablets and all sorts of stuff for consuming books in the obviously superior digital format. So what ...
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A Chandelier With Hundreds of Mini Perched Solar Cell Butterflies [Design]






Not only is Jeroen Verhoeven's Virtue of Blue lamp functional, it's also incredibly gorgeous—500 tiny butterflies were cut from photovoltaic cells, soaking up the sunshine to light up the lamp. I on...
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These 1950s Lamp Are Ripped from a 2150s Mothership [Design]






Lamps are easy to take for granted, because most lighting is petty dull, at best. But it doesn't have to be! These bulb-beauties by Italian designer Gino Sarfatti don't look 60 years old—in fact, th...
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All Our Lightbulbs Will Have IP Addresses [Smart Homes]






When we remarked that home automation technology was a reason we needed iPv6 technology, we weren't kidding. If Netherlands-based NXP has it their way, we'll all be using networked LED lightbulbs, each wi...
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$50 Worth of LEDs May One Day Replace Your Basic 100-Watt Light Bulb. Soon. [Light]






Get ready to dump your government-banned incandescent light bulbs and replace them with some LED-inspired lighting. The government ban on 100-watt incandescent bulbs goes into effect January 2012 and, lik...
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The World is Your Stage, With This Multimedia Party Truck [Vehicles]






You can literally roll Visual Drugstore's MMOV and stage a party anywhere, with the multimedia off-road vehicle bringing along a stage, speakers and a projection lighting system. Sure beats turning up to ...
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These Are the Android @ Home Light Bulbs You'll Be Able to Switch On With Your Android Device [Lighting]






Part of me wishes Google had gone with the Plumen light bulbs instead of Lighting Science Group's bulb, but I guess they had their reasons. The 60-watt bulbs can be dimmed or brightened with a touch of an...
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