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Lamp Thinks It’s a Speaker

Lightspeaker by LYX

This may look like some sort of funky 2-way speaker perched on a tall stand, but it’s actually a floor lamp.

The Lightspeaker Lamp from Sweden’s LYX Furniture and Light features a “tweeter” and “woofer” which reflect light instead of sound. There’s even a little “volume” knob which is actually…

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July 25th, 2007 by: Technabob

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…

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July 15th, 2007 by: Technabob

9-Volt Lights Are Brilliantly Minimal

Richard Lawson 9-Volt LED Lamp

Designer Richard Lawson has created the oh-so-simple LED lights that clip on the top of an ordinary 9-volt battery.

Originally designed for a Mathmos-sponsored design competition, they’re now available for you to purchase for the first tim. Each little light starts out white, but glows in either blue or white…

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July 13th, 2007 by: Technabob

Vessel Luau Rechargeable LED Lamp for Outdoors

Vessel Luau Portable Lamp

This innovative portable light provides a soft, warm glow wherever life takes you. When you’re ready to head outside, just grab it and go.

Vessel’s $249 Luau portable lamp works indoors or out, and provides illumination equivalent to a 50-watt light bulb. If you prefer some mood lighting, it’s also…

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July 4th, 2007 by: Technabob

Planetary Lights Float Around Your Room

TakaraTomy Fuwarito Planet Lights

Bring the solar system into your living room with these floating lights from Japan’s TakaraTomy.

These Fuwarito lamps look like the earth and the moon, but are just simple helium-filled mylar balloons with an LED built into the bottom. Each light comes with a two cans of helium gas and…

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June 30th, 2007 by: Technabob

Philips Livingcolors LED Lights: Prices and Dates Revealed

Philips LivingColors LED Color Changing Lights

A while back Philips showed off these gorgeous color-changing LED lighting fixtures as part of a media event. However, up until now, there was no information on how and when we mere mortals could get our hands on these cool device (unless we lived in the Netherlands.)

According Le Journal…

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June 11th, 2007 by: Technabob

Alien Abduction Lamp is Just Brilliant

Lasse Klein’s Abduction Lamp

Every once in a blue moon I come across a concept that’s just amazing, and this is one of those times.

Combining great design and a sense of humor is tough to pull off, but Artist Lasse Klein’s new Abduction Lamp manages it with ease. His sci-fi inspired lamp design…

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June 5th, 2007 by: Technabob

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…

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May 30th, 2007 by: Technabob

Lexon Tykho Bulb Lamps Make Light Squishy

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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April 25th, 2007 by: Technabob

Projector Lets You Moon Yourself

Banpresto Moon Projector

This light projector casts an ever-changing animation of the phases of the moon onto your wall.

The moon phase projector from Banpresto can project a 2 foot diameter moon image from about 6 feet away. The projector gradually changes between all of the lunar phases over the course of about…

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April 19th, 2007 by: Technabob

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