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pocket light portable folding light bulb is a really bright idea

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Ryan Harc says that his Pocket Light concept will let us share “the blissful moments with your beloved. Draw out a little light which can be the best conveyor of your feeling.” Wink wink. I wish this was a real product; it’s just so nice to look at. And practical. And so nice to look…

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October 31st, 2009 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: design gadgets mobile tech technology

kozo lamps: just turn the faucet on and light comes out! wait what?

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While the people behind Design2009 could not have possibly chosen a more generic Etsy name, their products are bursting with creativity. Their KOZO line of handmade lamps make use of pipes and faucets to come up with a raw and tough take on the good old lamp.

If a bunch of pipes, a light bulb…

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April 8th, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: design hacks + mods strange + wonderful

the light bulb gets flat

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Who says light bulbs need to be round? Despite what Copernicus might have taught us, flat is the new round.

Korean designer Joonhuyn Kim has reinvented the classic incandescent light bulb by putting it into a flat glass enclosure.

Kim claims the new bulbs take up just 1/3rd of the space of a conventional bulb,…

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December 28th, 2008 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design strange + wonderful

x-ray lighting fixtures won’t expose you to radiation

Usually when I think about X-rays, it conjures up images of sitting on a table in an ill-fitting hospital gown with a weighty lead apron draped over some part of my body. Fortunately, these X-ray lamps require not so much as a visit to the doctor’s office.

Designer Wonsuk Cho created these pendant lamps using…

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October 21st, 2008 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design

lightsabers for the eco-conscious jedi

Just because your primary weapon is a lightsaber, young Jedi, doesn’t mean that you have to be an energy hog when you’re fighting back throngs of Stoormtroopers.

This amusing t-shirt from Ruby Red Design envisions an EnergyStar compliant galaxy far, far away. Rather than burning a wasteful powerful plasma beam, the Jedi EcoSaber operates on…

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September 15th, 2008 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: geek art + craft just plain fun

dear edi lamp revamps edison’s classic lightbulb

DAB Dear Edi LED Lamp

This modern, minimal lighting fixture from designer David Abad takes queues from a traditional incandescent lightbulb, but the resemblance is only skin deep.

Created for Spain’s DAB Light Works, the bulb-shaped Dear Edi (a nod to Thomas Edison) lamp is actually made from metal, not glass. A small cutout at the bottom of the hanging…

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September 2nd, 2008 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design

lego block lamp lets you build your own structures

LEGO Building Block Lamp

The guys who designed this LEGO block lamp managed to dig up some sort of industrial-strength blocks that won’t melt into a pile of smelly goo when subjected to the heat of a lightbulb.

What makes the Block Light really cool is the fact that you can rearrange the pieces into pretty much any configuration…

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August 27th, 2008 comments (4) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design just plain fun

memento number lamp: you do the math

Memento Number Lamp by Tonerico

There’s something just so right about the design of this minimal lighting fixture from Japan. While it sits there on your tabletop, it casts a dramatic shadow of numeric shapes across the surface of your desk and walls.

While I’m not sure what all the numbers mean, I like to think that it’s the solution…

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January 20th, 2008 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design

lamps made out of light bulbs

Bulb Lamp by Bulbs Unlimited

These unique lighting fixtures out of Germany reuse old dead light bulbs to create dramatic sculptural lamps.

Bulbs Unlimited sells kits that let you create fixtures like the ones pictured here from your own recycled bulbs. The kits include everything you need to make these cool designer fixtures except for the bulbs themselves. A special…

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September 8th, 2007 comments (16) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design hacks + mods

this bug lamp doesn’t zap insects

Buggle Lamp

What I find so intriguing about this lighting fixture is the fact that insects are attracted to light. So it makes me wonder, what happens when you have a lamp that looks like a giant bug? Are they scared of it? Do they think they’re returning to the mothership? Or will they just act like…

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August 5th, 2007 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design

melting light bulb: is this how salvador dali lit his house?

Melting Bulb Lamp

Light bulbs are made out of glass, so they shouldn’t melt unless you heat them to a couple of thousand degrees Farenheit. That is, unless you get one of these kooky lighting fixtures from Propaganda.

The lamp lets you fool people around you into thinking that your bulb is actually melting like a Good Humor…

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July 15th, 2007 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: design just plain fun

led flashlight looks like a light bulb

LED Keychain Lightbulb

While I question the utility of this flashlight, the idea of carrying around what looks like a traditional incandescent light bulb on your keychain is just wacky enough that I thought I’d give it a mention.

While this little light bulb doppelganger might look like a real bulb, you won’t be mistaking it once it’s…

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May 30th, 2007 comments (12) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: gadgets just plain fun

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