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Modular Light Screen Room Divider

Got a large room you'd like to subdivide for privacy or partition off to create a home office area? Here's a modular PVC wall divider system that can connect up to 5 screens while also powering a buil...

Zoran Sunjic’s Blind LED Light Handrail

The beauty of LED lighting besides its energy sipping efficiency is that the technology gives off very little heat. This means interesting lighting solutions like Zoran Sunjic’s Blind LED Light Han...

Replace Boring Bricks With Star Light

The lights of the city will severely decrease the visibility of stars. Bummer. Good thing there's home tech designs like these bricks to bring a little star light to our outdoor spaces. ...

Diva Lamp and Music System

The Diva, designed by Dante Donegani and Giovanni Lauda, is a two in one solution that should appeal to your inner Whitney Houston: a LED bedside light with a music system specifically designed for t...

The Rotoliana Indoor/Outdoor Lampion Lantern

Here's a modern reinterpretation of the classic paper lantern, this time updated with an assortment of silicone coloured diffuser (green, blue and orange) and illuminated by a a 30 watt fluorescent bu...

A Great Example of Lighting Your Home Theater

Home Theater - Light Setup from msouza on Vimeo. We'll pardon the spastic video editing stylization of this Vimeo piece uploaded by msouza, only because the video does a great job showcasing an excell...

LED Pin Lighting

The beauty of LED lights are their bright efficiency. A small bulb can light up a large area without using much energy, and that's the premise behind Korea designer Sungho Lee's LED Pin concept, a s...

NightCove Duo Aids Couples to Sleep & Empty Bank Account

NightCove by Zyken is for insomniacs looking for a little technological aid to get their Zzz's. The NightCove relies upon LED light and programmed sound sequences to relax your senses into a sleep w...

Hybrid Solar Flashlight

One of the dubious joys of living in an apartment building that dates back to the 1920s is wiring that also dates back to the 1920s. I was reminded of this the hard way last night when a guest deci...

Macrolux LEDs Poles: They Are Supercool

Not all lamps fit in all spaces. Some spaces have awkward and unforeseen angles in which the best suited lamps don't really fit. That won't be a problem anymore, since the Macrolux Supercool LED lamps...

Philips Wake-Up Light Now Docks Ipod/Iphone

If you are like us, you must have trouble waking up. We tend to dislike our blaring morning alarms. The violent shock of waking up rarely puts us in a good mood. That's one of the reasons why we reall...

Energy Creating Toilet Paper

We conduct so much energy in all of the things we do each day; why aren't we embracing that? There's so much we could do and so much money we could save if we just harnessed our ability to produce ...

MoMA Pig Lamp Makes CFLs Feel at Home

We love this lamp from the Museum of Modern Art for the cheeky little way it makes tech feel cozy and cute. Never before has a compact fluorescent light bulb seemed so much like an intentional part of...

Bluetooth Enabled Lamp Enables Customized Color Therapy

After a hard day at work, it's nice to come to a relaxing mood in your home. In order for you to accomplish this, you can modify your lighting to be more soothing. It's been proven that the colors tha...

Pixelated Pendant Light

As renters, we are always on the lookout for great lighting options to help personalize our apartment. This pixelated pendant appeals both to our love of color and our inner geek......

LEDs Are As Efficient As Compact Fluorescents

Our recent articles on energy efficient lighting proposed that LEDs were a lot more efficient than standard incandescent bulbs. But how do those fancy LEDs compare to energy efficient compact fluoresc...

Make Your Own Custom Lamp Out of Ikea Parts

So you are moving again or changing the look of your place. You've decided that a particular piece of furniture or lamp isn't going to make it into the new place. However before you throw it out, you ...

Kodak Solar Charger Charge Your Gadgets With the Sun

It's a known fact that gadgets need to be recharged quite often. It's happened to everyone. It's easy to end up stranded with the power on your gadget just fizzling out. Once you have a dud, you are o...

The Otherwordly Lighting of Christopher Moulder

Most everyone knows what xenon bulbs are by now: the bright, near-sunlight in spectrum bulbs that make driving at night occasionally a hassle, but supposedly help driver visibility (the tradeoff see...

Reused Empty Inkjet Cartridges Lighting

Etsy seller boxlightbox couldn't bear tossing out the abundance of inkjet cartridges her workplace would go thru on a regular basis, so she began taking them with the motive of making something out ...

Frank Buchwald's Steampunk Machine Lights Series

Frank Buchwald's series of beautifully crafted lights look like they were lifted right off the set of a movie like Dark City or one of the Hellboy films. If visible filaments, coils and other industri...

Cassette Tape Lamps: Old School, But Looking Good

Even though cassette tapes are retro, they were a really nifty piece of technology. For those of us who were into music back then, they remind of some good old times spent with stereos and Walkmans. T...

Will Earl's LED Bud Lighting Up

Depending on your memory, and perhaps age, this LED task lamp might remind you of either the egg pod tops from Alien or the crane from a stuffed animal prize dollar machine. 32 warm and cold LED bulbs...

Marquee Alphabet Lights

So your kids have always wanted their name in lights? Will they settle for just their initial? We love the old-timey quality of these large (around 2' tall), metal lights reminiscent of Vaudeville...

Alone Illuminating Coat Hook

Such a simple, but useful idea for the entryway: coat hook that is also a wall mounted LED light! Daniele Trebbi's Alone light is one of those products that get our mind racing in the hopes of finding...