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New Green ESL Bulbs Will Be As Efficient As CFLs and LEDs

In the race to finding the greenest way to illuminate our nights, a new company has come up with a new refinement of old technology to serve our needs. Will it be enough to save you even more money? F...

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...

Eternaleds: Liquid Cooled LED Lasts 35,000 Hours

One of the easiest ways of saving money is by replacing your old school incandescent bulbs and replacing them with high tech alternatives. LEDs have been on the market for a few years, but Eternaleds ...

Simple DIY Lamp Lets Tech Take the Stage

What you're looking at up there is the most minimalist of lamps, hand crafted from recycled lab equipment. No DIY project could be easier, we assure you. But the result is simple and, in it's own indu...

Phillips LED Lightbulbs Look Like the Old Guard

Compact flourescent lamps, or CFLs as we've come to call them, have been gaining ground on the old standby incandescent bulbs for a while now. Something about using less energy and saving money on ele...

Renters' Solution: Ceiling Fan in a Light Socket

Ceiling fans—as ugly as the world of HGTV and TLC design shows would have you believe they are—are necessary here in the south. With sweltering summer temperatures, running the air conditi...

The BuTommaso Ceschi's Bulb-Sound-Speaker
Screw In Your Sound System

This has to be one of the coolest portable speaker systems we've ever seen, taking advantage of the common overhead lighting fixture and converting it into a remotely controlled speaker system which w...

Speakers Integrated Into Lightbulbs?

We love getting two-for-one. Whether it's a sale on shoes or a multitasking integrated gadget, it seems better when our money or our stuff can do double-duty. So we took pause at this lightbulb infuse...

Hope This Lightbulb Doorknob Doesn't Get Too Hot

We don't know why there's all the sudden some attention for out-of-the-ordinary doorknobs. You might have seen this less-than-sanitary but always fun HotchPotch toy as doorknob option from AT Boston o...

From Living Room to Psychedelic Pussycat Swingers Club?

We have to admit that if we had a time-travel fantasy, our destination would be 1960's London as portrayed in the Austin Powers films, complete with mod colorblock dresses, go-go boots, men with awful...

Carry a Little Lightbulb in Your Wallet with the Pocket Light

We're not really sure how this works, and since it's a concept, I guess it really doesn't have to. But for now, we'll just look at the pictures and say, "Whoa, Cool!" The Pocket Light is designed to b...