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Leave it to those wacky Japanese gadget makers to come up with this strange device. This portable lighting fixture doesn’t just illuminate, it deodorizes.

According to the device’s maker, e-Revolution, the Deodolight is designed to eliminate (or at least cover up) “ill-smelling” aromas while it slowly fades between an array of colors…

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 dimmable…

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 weighted base to keep them from floating away…

A while back Philips showed off these gorgeous color-changing LED lighting fixtures as part of a media event…

This portable LED flashlight is the perfect source of illumination for reading maps or other documents in you car without disturbing the driver. The compact Auto LED provides a bright, sharp-edged beam, keeping light focused only on its intended target.

The light stores and charges conveniently in your 12-volt cigarette lighter socket, putting it to good use if you’re a non-smoker…

This gadget takes your ordinary bathtub and brings it to life in a cascade of moving water and bright colors.

The AquaRain is a battery-powered device that floats along the surface of your bathwater and sprays a geyser of constantly recirculating water into the air in a couple of different patterns…

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 features a light-up UFO, “hovering” above the ground thanks to a glass base that looks like a tractor beam…

Perfect for the raver crowd, this gadget lets you send messages through the air by using an array of rapidly flashing LEDs. As you wave the Spacewriter LTC123 in the air, the circuitry detects the movement and writes out a dot-matrix message that’s readable by onlookers…