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Stardust: LED Lightup Furniture

We haven't decided if these furniture pieces from Italian furniture company Meritalia are weird or cool...or both. We do know they kind of remind us of our little sister's childhood toy, Glo Worm......

Mirage Lamp From Divided Glass

Cleverly designed to look like a simple table lamp via an array of frosted sheets of glass, the Mirage Lamp is sure to catch more than a few looks sitting in anyone's living room. We especially enjoy ...

Megalight: 30% Less Mercury CFL

One of the criticisms about CFL bulbs beside light quality has been the issue about the minute amounts of mercury contained within each bulb. Last week at the 2008 National Hardware Show, Megalight an...

Light + Dish = One Cool Landing Strip

Naoto Fukasawa comes through with another beauty. A self contained landing strip, the 'light with a dish' encompasses a daily ritual in a small and simple package. What do you usually do when you walk...

LED Chandelier Controlled By WiiMote

The Wanetlight continues the Wiimote hackery with a suspended lighting system composed of 25 blown glass candles with 5x5x5 LEDs clustered in the three axes (LxWxH). The cluster forms a luminous 3-D ...

Cubelights: A New Take On Constructable Lighting

Tired of that poor lampshade excuse of a lamp on your bedside table? Try these Cubelights by Nick Foley. They connect via earth magnets and light up each acrylic cube through an LED circuit as the cub...

Duck Hunt Lamp

This would be the perfect kids room lamp, except for the fact that a kid today will have no idea what this is. You either have to love Duck Hunt or have a great deal of extra time on your hands to put...

Look! Best Tech in Small Cool 2008

If you haven't checked out the pads in Apartment Therapy's Small Cool 2008 contest we strongly urge you to. Hot damn there are some good ideas and some are on the tech front. We'll be posting some of ...

Tangled Electric Wire Lamps

While we have seen lighting that stripped the fixture down to just the wire and bulb before, these tangled wire lamps from designer Kwangho Lee bring that idea to an entirely different level....

Sun-Tek Tube Skylights; Light With no Electricity

Because of the way homes are designed, we often need lighting during the day. This seems completely crazy when the sun is ours for the using. It seems more like we as humans should be in the busines...

Look! Highlighted Ikea Table

We love Ikea hacks and this one may be the geekiest and easiest to date. How it was made after the jump... ...

GE Develops Lite Brite Wallpaper

While it won't got to market for years, GE recently revealed that it had developed a cost effective way to make organic light-emitting diodes, which are used in some televisions, portable screens, and...

Karim Rashid Designed Veuve Globalight

Does Karim Rashid ever sleep? When the he's not designing fully immersive sleeping quarters, he's apparently busy glamming up the act of drinking champagne......

Air Purifying Light Bulb

An air purifying light bulb? Only if you believe that ionic air purifiers are effective. Producing 60 watts of light, an integrated ionizer cleans the air around the bulb while lighting your room at t...

DIY: How to Cut Glass Bottles for Use in Other Projects

This is a green idea everyone should try. We always keep pretty bottles with the hope that they could someday become lamps or glasses or some such but we never knew how that would actually be done. ...

Pill Sized Plasma Light Bulb: Better Than Compact Fluorescent?

Extremely bright and extremely efficient are the two main benefits of an Argon filled light bulb. While a regular incandescent bulb produces 15 Lumens per watt, this Argon filled plasma light bulb pro...

Neoball-Z Real Pride Bulbs From Toshiba

Sounding like something between a Japanese manga trading card game and a mixed martial arts fighting league, these new Toshiba Neoball-z Real Pride lightbulbs are level 12 grapplers. These are 12,000...

Hot or Not?

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Lightway; Lights the Way, Powered by the Sun's Ray(s)

The Lightway is a new concept from an Australian Industrial Design student named Damien Savio. It converts the suns rays during the day into light at night....

Firewinder: Light From the Wind

At first glance this looks like one of those basic wood mobiles that you typically find hanging out on the back porch. There is a little more to it however....

Rechargeable Pillar and Tealight Candles

If you love Candella, but want to retain a traditional candle aesthetic...these rechargeable pillars and tealights may fit the bill....

Flickr Finds: DIY Backlit Monitor

Add some drama to your office. This simple hack allows you to add backlighting to your desk, creating a monitor easier on the eyes both when you're working and when you're not....

Footlume: Electroluminescent Flooring Lights Up As You Walk

Remember MJ's video for Billie Jean, when the bow tied then king of pop lit up the sidewalk with every tippy-toed step across town? Take that idea, add some real world electroluminescent technology po...

Consumption Feedback Switch

Here is a switch that is similar to the glowing socket we saw yesterday. Instead of simply glowing however, this one sparkles with your energy usage. ...

LED Glass Bricks

One of the winners of Red Dot Design Awards this year, these LED Glass Bricks look promising. This lighting and building material uses mirrors to create a never ending pattern of light....

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