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rubik’s cube disco light: your party just got 200% nerdier

filed under: audio | gadgets | retro

Rubiks Cube Disco Light

The Retro Cube Stereo Speaker and Mood Light, in theory, brings the latest in LED and rhyhmic technology to an old familiar shape. In reality, however, it’s more like an unholy marriage between a Rubik’s Cube and the Saturday Night Fever dance floor.

This is a speaker that flashes its LEDs in time with your music, and looks like a fake Rubik’s Cube on a stand…

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September 19th, 2008 2 comments stumble it! digg it! author: karen m.

robot lamp says: light my shiny metal ass

filed under: design | retro | robotics

Affirmative. Yes, affirmative. I must have a pair of these metallic robot lamps flanking the sides of my bed.

With a retro style reminiscent of a 1950s robot movie (or Jemaine and Bret dressed in tin foil wrapped cardboard boxes depending on your point of view), these nifty bedside lamps are actually made out of ceramic with a metallic silver coating…

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September 17th, 2008 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

bandai luminodot: like a lite-brite on steroids

filed under: cool toys | gadgets | interactive

The Lite-Brite is one of my fondest childhood toy memories. Maybe it was the fact that it was THE original way to make pixel art. Or maybe it was the “living on the edge” thrill that any minute I could choke on one of the of hundreds of tiny candy-like pegs. Delicious…

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September 15th, 2008 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

toby fraley’s robot sculptures rock (and light up)

filed under: design | geek art & craft | robotics

Illuminated Robot Sculptures by Toby Fraley

I’m a sucker for robots - and I love cool lamps. So when I saw these cool robotic sculptures that light up, I just had to write about them.

Handcrafted by Pennsylvania artist Toby Atticus Fraley, these robot sculptures are assembled from vintage found objects (aka “Junque”), and lovingly reconfigured by Fraley to form one-of-a-kind artworks…

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September 3rd, 2008 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

dear edi lamp revamps edison’s classic lightbulb

filed under: design

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…

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September 2nd, 2008 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

lego block lamp lets you build your own structures

filed under: design | just plain fun

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 you’d like…

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August 27th, 2008 2 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

bring your remote control commands to light

filed under: design | just plain fun

This light brings your remote control commands to the forefront of your decor. All of your favorites are represented here in light, including stop, play, and perennial favorites pause and rewind.

There’s not a whole lot of information to be found about this cool design, but I can tell you this: the light is made by madreinspain…

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August 20th, 2008 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: karen m.

smoon ombrella lamp looks like a flying saucer overhead

filed under: design | strange and wonderful

Smoon Ombrella LED Lamp by Beau et Bien

This funky modern lighting fixture might be named for its umbrella-like shape, but to me it looks like some sort of alien jellyfish is about land its spacecraft in your living room.

Created by French furniture designers Beau & Bien, the Smoon Ombrella lamp gets its sculptural potato chip-like shape from custom cut Plexiglas…

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August 10th, 2008 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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