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5 Fresh Uses for the Wine Glass

We all know the benefits of the wine glass -- unwinding, social lubrication -- but did you know the goblet can also be used to provide light, sound, and notifications? Here's a roundup of alternative...

RGB Pendant Lamp Pays Tribute to Color

It's the same model of light that makes the images on our TVs and computer screens come to life, so why not use it in our living rooms? The mischlichtRGB pendant lamp uses the "red+green+blue=white"...

Make Your Own LED Desk Lamp

We love our LED lamps (See Five Best Energy Efficient LED Desk Lamps) for energy efficiency, low heat production and for the size of the light bulbs. What we don't love however, is the price (with ...

A Lamp Designed to Camouflage Your WiFi Router

We know that wi-fi routers get the best range when they're near the center of the home and placed out in the open. Unfortunately, that means the little bricks of black plastic and wires are usually a...

Saint Clair Lamp Sucks The Sun For Power

Even though solar power is already helping to create greener energy, we still have a long way to go before we can stop depending on fossil fuels. This solar-powered lamp uses a very simple idea, whi...

A Minimalist Lamp to Match Your MacBook

Yeah, we know. In the photo above, the supposed 'lamp' doesn't look like much more than an aluminum brick—the kind you might see lying around the Apple plant before it's carved out to make a uni...

The Mobil Pixel Lamp By Istvan Kulinyi

In our pixelated world, it seems appropriate to decorate your home with a pixel lamp. These aren't the first pixel lamps that we've seen, but honestly, we've never seen something like this. The Mobi...

Change up Your Lamps with Felt

If you've dropped every last dime on a gift for your honey on Valentine's Day, you'll probably be too broke to justify any fun home tech splurges—like that gorgeous lamp that would look great i...

Customize Your Less Lamp by Breaking It

Less is More, right? Well in the case of an opaque black orb trying to pass itself off as a light fixture, then yes. You're going to have to custom crack this egg if you want any of that sweet, bright...

Ghost Lamp Adds Slightly Creepy Lighting to Your Home

Unlike the 80's Ghost Lamp, this Ghost lamp by Tim Baute has nothing to do with PacMan and everything to do with creating a little zero gravity fun. Designed to look like a floating lamp shade with ...

The Optical Illusion Lamp

A visual mind trick only a true geek could love. Why settle for a normal stand-and-shade lamp when you could make your house guests do double-takes with this contraption?...

Wow! Pendant Lamps from Printer Ink Cartridges

Who knew trash could look this good? Gorgeous hanging lamps made from used printer ink cartridges make us wonder what kind of creative genius could come up with this—they're from an Etsy seller...

Ghosty Wall Lamp Completes Your Pac Man Wall

From the design firm that brought you the oversized-pac-man bookshelf comes these ghost-shaped lamps. As if you needed an excuse to turn your living room into a video game....

Cosmonaut Lamp: Decorate Your Light Bulbs With Clay

Lamps are a dime a dozen, but this is one of the best clay lamps that we've seen. In fact, it's probably the first clay lamp that we've seen!...

Yantouch's Jellyfish LED Light Wows With Touch Interface

Here at Unplggd, we've got a thing for lights that change the whole ambiance of the room. The Jellyfish is no exception. It's also touch-based, which is kind of cool. ...

Reuse LED Xmas Lights in Lamps

If you haven't switched all your regular bulbs to LEDs yet, but somehow have managed to buy a whole new set of energy-saving LED Christmas lights, put them to use year round for some mood lighting....

iMac Lamp: Another DIY Mac-Based Lighting System

Hacking old Mac computers seems to be a great way of recycling them. We just love the great ideas that we have been seeing recently. This has to be one of the best-looking DIY Mac lamps that we've see...

The Alterable & Shape Shifting Cube Lamp

As technology evolves and advances, lamps and lighting are changing. We really like this lamp that was created in Poland. It's kind of soft and its shape can be changed. ...

Katherine Semenko's In Lamp Concept

This interesting new lamp uses diffuse light and a new way of shading to make it really neat. It's a novel idea and we think that the designer really examined lighting to come up with something new. ...

The Strikingly Beautiful Artemide Yang Lamp

There are more and more different lamps available on the market that will help you create different moods in your room. It's really nice to be able to do so, because you don't always need harsh white ...

The Laser Cut Collapsing Volume Lamp That Folds Flat

We were just blown away at how cool this lamp looks. The diffuse glow of the light shows the complexity of the laser cut lampshade in a most beautiful manner. Read on to find out more. ...

Give New Life to Old Lamps Using Fabrics

When some of your lamps go out of date or just become ugly, you can have a ball in trying to revitalize them with neat fabrics. Sophie had an old lamp that was yellowing in her living room and came up...

Porcelain Hanging Flashlight Lamps

The faux flashlights are made with porcelain are designed to be arranged either solo or more dramatically in mixed groupings. Plug in an a LED bulb and you'll complete the facade. It's just too bad th...

Cassette's Not Dead Lamps Recycle Your Music

So here's where your whole back catalog of bad 80's hair metal audio cassettes and mixtapes went! The Cassette's Not Dead Floor Lamp is described as a tribute to the cassette tape, available in thre...

9 Things Topping Our Holiday Wish List

We're not really materialistic or all about "the gimmies," but with Thanksgiving and family get togethers right around the corner, relatives are sure to start probing for things that might be making...