The bulb has custom tubes that hold the fluorescent gasses that are bent to look like the crevices of your brain. This is the perfect bulb for green zombies, don’t you think? This cool bulb would be at home in the science lab or in a room where the fixture is exposed.

It looks really cool when it’s lit up. I am not sure if these are renderings or the real thing, I suspect renderings. The light looks yellow for a fluorescent. I like these things and might actually buy one, assuming it is something that can even be made.

[via DesignBoom]

Designed by Rob Slewe of BLOOM, the Battery portable lamp has a built in battery pack that provides enough juice to power a high efficiency 11-watt fluorescent bulb.

Plus, it just looks cool when you’re hanging out in the great outdoors with one of these by your side.

The Battery lamp is available in 8 different colors, and in both 40cm (appx. 16″) and 56cm (appx. 22″) tall versions over at BLOOM’s online shop, where they sell for €239 to €259 (appx. $331 to $359 USD).

And unlike those LED mini projectors, this is a serious projector, pumping out a whopping peak brightness of 3000 lumens! The new hybrid light source manages to combine these multiple light sources to produce a super bright image. Blue lasers produces both blue and green colors, while the LED punches out red. All of these are combined and pushed through a TI DLP chip, at resolutions up to 1280 x 800.

The Green Slim projectors are about the size of a sheet of letter-size paper, stand about 1.7″ tall, and weight about 5 pounds. While that’s nowhere nearly as small as pico-projectors, there’s no comparison when it comes to brightness and resolution.

Casio plans on releasing several models of the projector, including 2000, 2500, and 3000 lumen variants, as well as lower resolution models which will assuredly be the least expensive. The top of the line models can also receive data wirelessly from up to 4 PCs.

The first of the Green Slim projectors is set to hit the streets in February or March, with prices ranging from $899 to $1299 (USD), so  if you’re in the market for a new data or gaming projector, you might want to wait to check these out when they’re released.

The machine, which was constructed from fluorescent vacuum tubes, also tells time. Just in case you want it to do something slightly less hypnotic but more useful. It is the opposite of cheap at $125, but if you are one of the twelve people with money to burn in this economy, and you’re like me, you might just find this hilariously random and therefore awesome.

The four-letter word generator is available from koolatron’s Etsy site.

Designer Wonsuk Cho created these pendant lamps using actual X-rays of incandescent and compact fluorescent light bulbs.

Alas and alack, there is no information on if or when you’ll ever be able to buy these for your own pad. For now, you’ll have to settle for something a little less elegant. Just slice up that old film of your fractured limb, glue it onto the sides of an Artemide Petronilla ceiling fixture and hang it up.

[via MocoLoco via Design Zen]

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 a high-efficiency compact fluorescent bulb instead.

Sure, you might not have enough energy to slice Sith Lords in half with one of these, but you sure could give ‘em a bad case of mercury poisoning if you smash the bulb over their heads. Or maybe you can just dodge Darth Vader until he goes broke paying his electric bill – which no doubt bankrupt him long before you.

If you’ve been looking for a new t-shirt for your ironic hipster-doofus wardrobe, head on over to online art marketplace RedBubble and order yours today.

SystemX uses a set of “X” shaped primitives that can be joined, then hung from a ceiling to provide both illumination and drama in any space. The fluorescent system is not only beautiful, it’s bright and energy-efficient.

While the “X” is the primary design element, Yamagiwa sells a variety of special connectors which let you combine them into a virtually infinite array of different patterns.

[via TrendsNow via CribCandy]

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.