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LED Broom Lamp Sweeps Away the Darkness of Your Home [Lighting]





If you're into unusual accent lighting, you're not going to find anything more unique than Pēteris Zilbers and Mārtiņš Straupe's Mood Broom which illuminates a room with a strip of color-changing LEDs runn...
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Bizarro Lamp Illuminates a Room With Its Shade [Lighting]





Thanks to the relatively compact nature of LED technology, lighting designers have been able to create some truly unique designs now that they don't have to accomodate a bulb. Like Peter Stathis' Symtra la...
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Backpack Flash Turns You Into a One-Person Photography Studio [Photography]





It's hard for clients to understand why photographers charge so much for photos. So if you find yourself in the same situation as Ian Spanier—who was hired for a shoot with no money for an assistant&...
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How in the World Does This Wooden Lightbulb Work? [Wish You Were Here]





At first glance artist Ryosuke Fukusada's wooden light bulb looks like it was simply carved from a solid block of wood, and meant to hang from a ceiling as an art piece. But surprisingly it actually works,...
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Shooting Challenge: Rainbow Lights [Shooting Challenge]





We tend to think of light as light. But light can also carry color. And for this week's Shooting Challenge, we'll be celebrating hard gels and Photoshop light filters. We want lights in every color of the ...
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Clip These Adorable LED Cubes Anywhere the Sun Don't Shine [Lighting]





There's no shortage of compact stick-on, clip-on, magnetic LED lights out there. And if you want your product to stand out, you better focus on features or design. So Osram has concentrated on the latter w...
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Panic Button Light Switch Adds Drama To Conserving Electricity [Lighting]





They've been used to launch missile strikes, eject warp cores, and sound countless alarms, and now you can have a big red panic button of your own for the considerably less dramatic purpose of turning off ...
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GE Figures Out How to Squeeze 100W of Light from a 27W LED Bulb [Lighting]





One drawback of LED lighting is that as the bulb's output wattage grows, so too does the chip cooling system. But GE's new Energy Smart bulb's ingenious cooling design packs a 100W of power at a quarter th...
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Change the Shape of This Lamp With the Pull of a String [Beautiful]





Overhead lighting is possibly the least flexible way to illuminate a room. Flip a switch, the bulb goes on, and light shines down. End of story. It you want to switch up the lighting for, say, a little mor...
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The One Styrofoam Object You Shoudn't Dispose Of [Design]





Styrofoam is widely used because cheap and disposable, if not entirely recyclable. But when you heat-shrink it and fashion it into a giant ball, its value skyrockets to $700. High concepts! More &r...
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Zeppelins Make Their Comeback as Exotic Lighting [Lamps]





Whether or not the Hinderberg tragedy was to blame, blimps and zeppelins never really caught on as a popular form of travel. But as Italian designer Flaminio Bovino shows, they certainly make for a beautif...
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120-Pound Concrete Light Fixture Is An Ikea Designer's Worst Nightmare [Beautiful]





After years of hegemony, the design pendulum is finally starting to swing back from modern, efficient design to an unvarnished, industrial aesthetic. Take, for example, this huge, heavy concrete slab fille...
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Clever Bookend Lamp Hides Between Hemingway and Shakespeare [Lamps]





Packing as much clever functionality as it does style, Roderick Vos's Mr. Ed lamp camouflages itself between the literary classics on your bookshelf. Not only does it prevent the works of J.K. Rowling and ...
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Stained Glass Iron Man Helmet Would Totally Class-Up Avengers HQ [Iron Man]





It's a little-known fact that's rarely mentioned in the comic books, but in addition to battling the forces of evil with a cybernetic supersuit, Tony Stark also has a passion for stylish Art Nouveau lighti...
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Bird Poop Chandelier Is Not for the Faint of Heart [Art]





Funny as this chandelier of pooping birds may be, surely this is not meant for show in the home of an actual human being. I mean, how long could anyone go before the joke wore off and they just got sick of...
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The Most Confused Lamp in the World Is Still Lovely [Beautiful]





Lightbulbs are becoming increasingly obsolete in favor of smaller, more efficient LEDs. So what do you do with the classic Angelpoise lamp design—one whose design catered to the bulb—in 2012? Y...
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This Circuit Board Lamp Loves To Expose Itself [Lighting]





French designer Matali Crasset created this hanging Court Circuit lamp that embraces its function as its form. It's made from raw undisguised circuit boards embedded with LEDs, but since they're arranged l...
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You Don't Need To Be an Origami Master To Assemble This Flat-Pack Lamp, But It Wouldn't Hurt [Lighting]





It might look like it claimed the lives of an entire drawer full of barbecuing tools, but Tom Dixon's simple Stamp Lamp actually starts life as a boring flat sheet of zinc-coated steel. More »...
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Better Know a Grow Light [Lighting]





Whether you're propagating tabletop lettuce or a batch of the sticky ickies, window sills just won't cut it. You need yourself a proper lighting rig to get the most of your indoor garden. Here's what you n...
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Annoying Eco-Friendly Lamp Turns Off Whenever You Close Your Eyes [Video]





As long as it doesn't require any additional effort, people seem happy to embrace eco-friendly ideas. So to free people from having to remember to turn a light off when it's not needed, Randy Sarafan creat...
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Bubbles: The Future of the Lightbulb? [Video]





Although there are many lightbulb options open to the smart consumer, they all share one important trait: they're all solid, and don't pop unlike this bubble light. More »



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Prize Winning LED Lightbulb to Arrive Just in Time for Earth Day [Lighting]





Philips, the Netherlands-based lightbulb manufacturer who won a 2007 congressional contest to create an energy-saving replacement for the incandescent 60-watt bulb, plans to start selling their LED bulb (t...
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Vintage Swiss Army Flashlights Look As Good As the Day They Were Never Used [Flashlights]





It's dim, it gets hot, and it will probably chew through batteries faster than an electric car. But damned if this vintage Swiss Army flashlight dating back to the '50s and '60s isn't a lovely piece of har...
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The Motorcycles That Died For These Lamps Made a Beautiful Sacrifice [Design]





We usually cringe when we see a lovely piece of hardware that's been cannibalized for the sake of another device. But that's not the case with Classified Moto's lovely lamps which are only made from spare ...
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Hanging Chandelier Blossoms Like an Inverted Flower [Beautiful]





You don't often think of a large decorative chandelier as being a bona-fide gadget. But the hanging veins on Denise Hachinger's Kronleuchter—or crown light—raise and lower at your beckoning to ...
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Recently Opened Time Capsule Contains 100 Year-Old Lightbulbs That Still Work [Video]





Engineers at GE's NELA Park facility recently discovered five intact lightbulbs inside a 100-year-old time capsule. And much to the delight of the dudes over in marketing, three of the century-old bulbs s...
0   Published 57 days ago in
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Optical Illusion Turns Simple Pendant Into an Elaborate Chandelier [Beautiful]





When design shop Troika was called upon to create a series of unique chandeliers for the Royal Society of Arts‘ headquarters in London, instead of engineering some hanging crystal monstrosity, they created...
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Basketball Hoop Lamp Is Most Certainly Not For Dunking [Lamps]





Despite being called the Dunk Light, it's probably not a good idea to actually dunk or hang on Karl Zahn's basketball-inspired light fixture. You'll almost certainly shatter its circular fluorescent bulb, ...
0   Published 61 days ago in
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Light-Up Psychedelic Clothes Designed to Freak Out Squares and Protect Cyclists [Cycling]





My left wrist grinds like a cement mixer thanks to my numerous automotive altercations while riding at night and is a testament to the importance of proper visibility. With the Supaheroe cycle jacket, you'...
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Jelly Fish Frozen In Glass Lamp Glows In the Dark—JELLY. FISH. LAMP! [Lighting]





Belovers of kitsch and naff! Here's your new object of desire: the Jellyfish lamp. It absorbs light and then glows in the dark "very exquisitely," says the manufacturer. And you can even change the light t...
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Acne Enhancing Pink Lighting Used To Deter Loitering Youths [Science]





According to the BBC, a handful of small towns in the UK are installing pink lighting around shops, and other areas where teens hang out and cause trouble, because it makes acne and skin blemishes more vis...
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Flattened Flashlight Is Much Too Easy To Smuggle [Flashlights]





Kikkerland must have joined a work release program with their local prison. Because what else would explain the inspiration behind this $6 flattened LED flashlight that looks like it's particularly easy to...
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Telescoping Task Lamp Disappears Into Your Desk [Lighting]





You'll have to cut a hole in your desk to install this retracting Levity task light. But that minor inconvenience is worth it for a lamp that's completely non-intrusive when you don't need it. More ...
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Does This Lamp's Flat-Folding Design Merit a Half-Grand Price Tag? [Lamps]





Made from lightweight aluminum alloy this sleek LED task lamp folds down to a compact package roughly the same size as Apple's keyboards. So when not in use it can easily disappear on your desk under paper...
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Scientists Create 230-Percent Efficient LED Bulbs [Lighting]





Light bulbs have always required more electricity than they need to produce light because the energy conversion process—changing electricity to light—was inefficient. But an MIT research team h...
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Glowing Bubbles Turn Any Occasion Into a Kid-Safe Rave [Science]





I don't know why black lights make everything cooler, but they do. And if your ten-year-old has been asking for a rave-themed birthday party, these Tekno Black Light Bubbles are the perfect favor. You know...
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Man Struck By Lightning, Left With An Amazing Scar
Winston Kemp, a 24 year old electrician (that’s irony right there) got struck by lightning and now he also has a unique and possibly permanent bit of “body art” known as a Lichtenberg scar for his troubles.
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OLED Lights Will Make Future Audis Glow Like Jellyfish [Video]





Like a bioluminescent creature rising from the depths, these OLED lighting concepts from Audi are simply otherworldly. Eat your heart out, KITT. More »



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Gravity Tells This Versatile Lamp When To Automatically Adjust Its Glow [Lighting]





Snow Peak is known for its lighting gear that adapts to the needs of campers throughout the day. And their new Tulip Lantern is the smartest yet, automatically adjusting its throw when it detects it's bein...
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Touch Sensitive Coin Block Lamp Will Eventually Pay For Itself, Right? [Video]





Given they provided Mario with an unending supply of currency during his quests, I'm going to assume this interactive replica of the game's coin blocks do the same in real life, and aren't just limited to ...
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Instantly Class Up Any Room With Beer Can Lighting [Lighting]





If you've been on the hunt for the perfect accessory for your new hidden mini fridge, your search is over. Etsy seller ZAL Creations has created this sophisticated track light lamp from recycled beer cans....
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Tetris Lamp Lights Up When Stacked Instead of Disappearing [Lighting]





It doesn't include that oh-so-catchy theme song, but as a deskcessory this Tetris lamp is thankfully not just a cheap cash grab tie-in to the famous puzzle game. More »



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A Magnetic Metal Ball Is the Secret To This Designer Lamp's Flexibility [Video]





Move over Luxo. Giulio Iacchetti has designed an incredibly flexible table and floor lamp that would put Pixar's mascot to shame. And like anything awesome, the Magneto's capabilities come from the power o...
0   Published 96 days ago in
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‘holes’ lighting by bertjan pot

We’ve had lighting on the brain lately. Our new design*sponge office came with huge fluorescent hanging lamps that we avoid turning on at all costs. So Kate, Grace and I have been hunting for something cool and functional. While I don’t know ...
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The First $5 LED Bulb Comes With a Catch [LEDs]





Besting both incandescents and fluorescents when it comes to energy-efficiency and eco-friendliness, LED bulbs unfortunately still haven't caught on because they're still too expensive. And even with a sub...
0   Published 99 days ago in
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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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