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Posts tagged “light”

DIY Project: Make Your Own Halogen to LED Conversion

There are many LED conversions out there for halogen lamps. This means that people are converting their halogen lamps to LED lamps by tinkering around with the bulbs and making their own. We've always...

LED Clips: Small and Easily Used to Decorate

Have you ever wanted to have small LEDs? LEDs that you could place all over the place without worrying too much about wires? Look no further, because these little LED clips can be used in this fashion...

Smartbulbs: Lightbulbs Get an LED Update

We all want to save money. That's why most of use have started using these fluorescent bulbs instead of the traditional ones. They are way more energy efficient and will save you a bunch of money thro...

Surface Treatment Makes LED Light More Cozy

In the debate over whether compact flourescent lights (CFLs) or light emitting diodes (LEDs) are going to join Betamax and HD DVDs in the up-and-coming technology graveyard, opponents of LEDs for norm...

Good Questions: To Project or To Not Project?

Amy from SF had this question for us: Hey guys! My boyfriend and I have been debating whether or not to go the projection route for quite a while now. We've heard a high definition projection setup i...

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...

Re(al)view: Philips Wake-Up Light

For most of us, waking up each morning is a process of being jabbed back into consciousness via the blare of music or the annoying beep of an alarm clock. But what if you could ease from the unconscio...

Green Idea: Water Pressure Powered Shower Light

I am fortunate to have a lot of natural light in my bathroom which definitely helps in the morning stumble from the bed to the shower routine. In previous places I have lived however, I haven't been a...

Task Lamp Modeled After Car Suspension

Are you into cars? What better way to show it than with this lamp, which features a model of a car suspension system as the main design element. We never thought that the things you'd find hanging aro...

If Weapon X-Rays Are Your Thing, This is Your Lamp

For fans of MythBusters, How It Works or any of those other shows and blogs that give you an inside peek into the way things work, check out this gun "x-ray." When it's off, it looks like a duck hunt-...

No Need For a Tanning Bed Anymore...

This might be more applicable to the summer months when everyone's not buried under mountains of snow, but here it goes: Everyday, you make the unconscious (or maybe conscious) choice to sit inside an...

LaptopLamp at IMM Cologne

Some ideas are just so simple, easy and efficient that you can't possibly do any better. There's no use re-inventing the wheel. Tilting your laptop screen down just a bit leaves the perfect amount of ...

Two Great New Lights: From Sconces to Fiberoptics

Lighting is important. We need adequate lighting in order to work and live properly. It's not always easy to find the right sort of lighting for the right purpose. There has also been a movement in li...

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...

The Great Multipurpose Ipod Dock

We like iPod docks, since we have to have them at home in order to play our tunes. However, docks should always come with speakers, since we like to have a all-in-one solution. That's why I thought th...

Solar Paper Lantern Makes Green Look Good

Covering something in solar panels, whether it's a house or some sunglasses, doesn't particularly make it look very attractive. I mean, we're talking about silicon and glass here, not leather and lace...

Another OMG Really? Recycled Home Appliance

This bad-ass, uber-modern, glass-topped, inner-lit side table (we couldn't narrow down exactly which two-parter hyphenated description to use for it) was once a part of a common—well, not in NYC...

Psychodesign: When Gadget Design Fights Back

The mark of great design is in adapting a product to be more beautiful and at the same time to make it easier for its user to complete the task the it was born for. An article on Adbusters Magazine's ...

LED Outdoor Walkway Catwalk

This one is for all the fashionistas and stylistas (a.k.a. your girlfriend who takes too long to get ready to go out) who think every day is a fashion show, or just for the geek who thinks any everyda...

Hourglass Lantern: Turning LEDs on Their Sides

Not sure why, but hourglasses have always made us nervous. Maybe it's seeing the way they were always used to show a finite amount of time until a (usually bad) conclusion. It makes the simple visual ...

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...

Ambient Pool Lighting: Uses No Power, No Need to Install

We're going to go out on a limb and say that most AT readers don't have private pools. But if you're lucky enough to be in a warm climate, own your place, have a house with a yard and happen to have a...

Wake Up to Smells That Aren't From Your Roommate

This Peaceful Progression Wake Up Clock uses that gradual lighting technique to wake you slowly and without "WTF is that noise? Is it morning already!?" moments. There's also a scent, which is release...

Make Your Christmas Tree Even More Green

Is it December already? If you're decorating for Christmas this year, have you started? We haven't. Only because stringing up Christmas lights is one of the most tortuous and frustrating of holiday ta...

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...