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...
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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...
Final Frame: Romantic Lamps
Self Reflecting Lamp by Oliver Schick is a conceptual object that may reveal the secret romantic lives of lighting....
Mathmos: Perfect Store For Outdoor Lights and Lava Lamps
Finding the right type of lights isn't always as straightforward as heading to the nearest hardware store or Ikea. You got to search for the right stuff. Mood lighting is also something good to integr...
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...
Final Frame: Spoticam Desk Lamp
The Spoticam Desk Lamp by Antrepo looks like a security camera, but the articulating lighting-in-security-disguise is actually a lamp that can be used upon a desk or wall mounted....
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 ...
Download a Free DIY Box Lamp Plan via Ponoko
Designer MadebyDan from Wellington, New Zealand has uploaded and is sharing free plans for anyone and everyone to make their own DIY box lamp. There's a catch though; unless you have access to your ow...
DIY Track Lighting In Any Room in the House
Track lighting, several movable lamps along a wired track, is the perfect solution for highlighting artwork on the walls, collections on shelves or your home's architectural details. But it can also j...
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 ...
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...
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...
Low-Tech Lighting Takes on the Look of a Light Bulb
With everyone so concerned about both money and the environment, we're all making the effort to cut back on our home's energy use and slim down those utility bills. But even better than shutting off u...
Inspiration: Stylish LED Lighting Underneath Furniture
There is a fine line between tacky and stylish. Some tacky ideas can yield some great results, even if they verge on being completely tacky. We have to say that usually lighting that is put underneath...
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...
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...
Inspiration: Fluxus Weaving Glass and Light Together
Imagine a different sort of light fixture, one that could just hang from the ceiling and give a natural light, almost like the light from the sun. Now think about how these lights are put together. Th...
Kleiderleiste LED Illuminated Coat Rack
The Kleiderleiste Illuminated Coat Rack lights up your entryway with LED lighting in a choice of 5 colours, providing a splash a colour without the need to paint. The wall mounted slimline coat rack's...
Lumiere LED Shower Head by Jaclo
The Jaclo Lumiere shower head is all about double duty, combining a 252 jets rain shower head with a LED lighting system decorated in decorative damask, so you can pretend you're showering in the liv...
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...
KGB Lamp Reveals Secret Messages
Designed for the IDII exhibition in Salone del Mobile, the KGB Lamp would make one really great solution for parents who want their kids to have the freedom to "express themselves", but without the me...
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 ...
President Obama Announces New Lighting Standards
President Obama is not only having Nobel laureate physicist Steven Chu manage the replacement of bulbs in the White House to more energy efficient models, but has also announced he's shaping a nationa...
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