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memento number lamp: you do the math

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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…

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posted: January 20th, 2008 stumble it! post a comment author: technabob

lamps made out of light bulbs

filed under: design | hacks-mods

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…

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posted: September 8th, 2007 stumble it! 15 comments author: technabob

this bug lamp doesn’t zap insects

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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 moths to a flame?..

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posted: August 5th, 2007 stumble it! 1 comment author: technabob

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

filed under: design | just plain fun

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 bar on a hot Summer day…

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posted: July 15th, 2007 stumble it! post a comment author: technabob

led flashlight looks like a light bulb

filed under: gadgets | just plain fun

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 lit…

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posted: May 30th, 2007 stumble it! 11 comments author: technabob

lexon tykho bulb lamps make light squishy

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Lexon Tykho Lamps

These unique lighting fixtures from LEXON feature a soft silicon rubber exterior that conceals a cool fluorescent tube light source.

The Tykho Bulb lamp can run on either battery power (4 x AA) or an AC adapter, and come in several bright colors. The lamps cost about $60 USD each.
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posted: April 25th, 2007 stumble it! 1 comment author: technabob

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