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Posts tagged “Lamp”

Could the Silly-Looking Plant Lamp Help 'Em Grow?

Sure it looks silly, with three lamp-handed tentacles stalking over a palm tree and couch, but is it a good idea to keep both plant and owner happy?...

DMO's Iconic Flat Light

While this may not be the first time we've seen the flattening of light fixtures around the home, Korean-based DMO design group has their own take on the graphic icon-inspired lamp. Not only does in c...

Final Frame Rubik's Lamp

The Rubik's Lamp: We just hope you don't have to solve the puzzle to turn off the light....

DIY Kit Lets You Coil a Cord Lamp

We're seeing the trend lately that lamps getting proud about showing off their cords, but they've all been high-design (read: really expensive) items—until now......

Big is the New Small: Edison the Grand Lamp

With gadgets, the coolest, baddest thing is almost never the biggest. We like our cell phones, laptops and music players to be as compact as possible. But sometimes, big is beautiful......

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. ...

Switch Candle Leaves a Light on For You

Outlets and light switches are under-appreciated. You probably don't even notice they're there until one is in the wrong spot for your TV wiring or there's a wacky switch with weird connections......

Space Invaders Shade is Surprisingly Cool

We're not so into over-the-top themed rooms. But if you're going to go with a kitschy gamer-inspired home, we'd rather see it done with subtle and still cool pieces like this Space Invaders lamp shade...

Look! Yamagiwa Moonbird: Exquisite Hand Carved LED Lamp

We tend to think of LED lamps as being modern and sleek, as well as mass-produced in some factory in China. That's a shame, because we think that hand crafted lamps and furniture are well worth the ef...

Future of Lighting: Super-Efficient OLED Lamps

We all know that LEDs are become more and more popular, thanks to their low-power needs and their brightness. Frankly, it's inevitable that LEDs will finally easily surpass traditional incandescent li...

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...

10 DIY Projects That Will Save You Money & Space

Back to school season seems to fuel the diy and creative spirit around your spaces. You can't help but be thrifty and creative with new spaces that seem smaller and more akward (the closest outlet...

Final Frame: Romantic Lamps

Self Reflecting Lamp by Oliver Schick is a conceptual object that may reveal the secret romantic lives of lighting....

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 ...

8 Ways To Make Your Home Office More Comfortable

At times it can seem as though we live mainly out of our home office. It's well used, but it can be difficult to get things done in a timely and efficient manner if we don't like spending time in it...

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...

Solar Powered UV Onion Lamp

This new design by Shanghai design student Yun Li is a unique take on a solar powered lamp. The layered device absorbs solar power during the day, then gives it off when the device is separated in ...

Home Office: High, Low & Even Lower

Our friends over at Metropolitan Home put together a great High Low comparison of two home offices. The savings from one to the other is well over $10,000, but we haven't met anyone lately who's wil...

It's Auto-Magic! The Book-Sensitive Reading Lamp

Don't you love it when a product surfaces that just completely and perfectly solves a little everyday challenge? Well, not that flipping a switch to turn off a light is a huge challenge, but this prod...

IKEA Six Arms Ceiling Lamp

This DIY creation made out of an IKEA blanda blank metal bowl, 6 Tertial lamps, some metal cables and "lots of time" resulted in a creepy-cool creation that reminds us of one of those deep sea crabs...

Karin Johansson's Kinetic Energy Powered Dynamic Lamp

Using kinetic energy via a dynamo placed inside the globe, this table lamp lights up without the need for an electrical outlet. It's sort of like a hamster wheel meets lighting solution....

Sputnik: The Solar Lamp from Space

We know that in the long run, solar powered devices will outlast conventional ones. Along the way, they also have the benefit of saving you some money. Summer is most definitely here, and it's time to...

How to Make Your Own Sun Jar and Save Money

You've seen the Sun Jar and you love it. The trouble is the price. You can't just fathom paying $45 for each solar light. You'd be paying almost $500 to light up your garden and your rooms. That just ...

Sanyo Eneloop Lamp and Flashlight

Part weeble, part LED flashlight, the Sanyo Eneloop Lamp balances itself upright as a mood lamp, but also plays double duty and illuminates from bottom as a flashlight when positioned at a 90 degree a...