TELESCOPIC NIPPLES

PirateSasquatch

The lamp is $215 in europe. It will be a lot cheaper in the states, like everything else.

jesusdiaz

sweeet.. lamp.. a lil in the expesive side but great vid : )

DJJS

@bradc2755: That makes two of us.

GizFanAlpha

Do they have the Pearl Black version as well in the States?

sirtalis

Sweet FOTC soundtrack. Light seems as mind-altering as the song. DO WANT.

bradc2755

Just seems like a gimmick to me - $215 for a light which you'll mess around with for a bit, choose a colour that you like, then leave as it is?

RetepNamenots

Yeah, but $200?? There seems like a pretty limited market here for a company like Philips to get involved. Whats this for? I must be missing something.

homerjay

They love lamp.

If married, they'd have a son named Brian. Brian Lamp.

And he'd be the shreditor of a Blag called Gizmardo ina a a ioop ino yoho rehiquoo

redo from start

strider_mt2k

$200? Yikes.

Just build your own. A bunch of LEDs, and a PIC will do.

Mio

the product sounds interesting, but the price needs to go down... seems like i have to wait another 1-2 years to get such a lamp ;-(

Bodypainter

trippy.

GizFanAlpha

According to Amazon UK, it has an output of 120 lumens - comparable to a 15 Watt incandescent bulb.

That hurts.

lianna_g

Concerning the price, the bottom line for me would be how bright is it?

How many lumens max out of output is it in each color? Or at least could we get a incandescent equivalent output, like the specs they give on CFLs?

It seems like possibly a gouge on the price, because the output is just too low. The guy in the video stares right into the output without squinting, making me think that it might not be much brighter than those nice 3 watt LED flashlights... or less than a 20 watt incandescent... i.e. you can't read comfortably with it unless you have it pretty close.

I guess it's worth it for the remote capabilities, etc. but I hate overpaying for lighting that is underpowered.

dcartist

I'd like to be able to control it via computer.

Change the room lighting to correspond to my CPU load.

Or assign different colors to different music genres and have the lighting change as the tunes change.

TommySez

@strider_mt2k: LOLS!

i like that "brian lamp"

heheh

Amiash

i was deciding on whether to buy the Jellephish lamp here [www.theglowcompany.co.uk] but didnt know if it would be bright enough. this one looks almost too bright. nice find.

slumlord

This looks sweet and using Flight of the Conchords for the music was a wise decision. Bowies in Space FTW ha!

benkessler

Hah somebody just discovered FotC recently.

jcraig

omg, what a useless POS.

deedrit

Rest in peace Color Kinetics, I hardly knew ye...

blitzcat

FOTC FTW!

marcus_ivo

Um well this is useful if you know how to decorate your place something like this could change the mood faster than a dimmer switch as well I was wondering how good would it be for photography. Lava Lamp can be up to 120 drop 80 bucks more down and you don't have to buy bulbs or burn your hands. I'll buy on if it's 200 bones

Ultraorange

That looks really sweet, but way to expensive.

lafond66

The remotes are RF, but the range is not too long. A couple meters. You can control multiple lights with one remote.

jesusdiaz

question: are the remotes RF or IR? if i were to get multiple lights, would i be able to control each one with its own remote, or would one remote control all the lights?

tr

The originl patents that covered this were owned by Color Kinetics. (I know, painfully obvious technology undeserving of a patent). Philips purchased Color Kinetics and has used the technology most notably in their ambilight products. Supervision, who is another lighting company n.e.e as nexus ( [www.nexxuslighting.com] ) have acquiried patents which pre-date the color kinetics patents resulting in a 10M$ lawsuit against philips/color kinetics. Whatever and just FYI about why this stuff costs so much these days.

earthling

@lianna_g: 120 luments, comparable to a 15 watt incandescent.

Thanks.

That's very disappointing. 15 watt incandescent output for $215? It's almost like a nightlight. Useless for photography purposes, unless you have about 50 of them... though I guess $10,000 for photographic studio lighting is do-able for some.

For comparison, those 3 watt Luxeon LED flashlights at Walmart & Target, powered by AA batteries produces around 80 lumens... a standard 100 watt incandescent bulb puts out 1750.

You know you can almost get the same mood effect for the same cost by buying 70 of these Megabrite color changing night lights ($15 for pack of 5):

[www.thingamababy.com]

dcartist

@Mio:
Small downlight version:
[www.emanator.demon.co.uk]

Bigass floodlight version.
[www.emanator.demon.co.uk]

StarChaser Tyger

The colors, man. The colors.

kevjohn

Some say you can do what you want to do.. in living color.

tehmark

Awesome, now I can do what my city(Philly) did:

[farm3.static.flickr.com]

Mixiboi

Philips has been selling these for a while now here in the Netherlands. You would be surprised by the popularity of this expensive LED Light.

Thanks to the Ambilight televisions a whole moodlight hype was started.

wietsehage

I have the lamp now for about 4 months and it is amazing, paid about 150 Euro's for it but price has gone down a bit, so you can have it here in the Netherlands (Philips is Dutch for those who do not know....) for about 120 Euro which is about 170 USD.
You can set the color to what ever mood you're in and it really gives a bunch of light. Furthermore the design is great (if it is your taste) and I have it in plain sight so beautiful i think it is. I never owned a Lava lamp because I think they suck but this is really in a different league. This lamp is worth the money I paid for it and I'm not into lights as the writer of this article.

akreek

Ya, what song is that? Anyways, cool lamp. Why does everything cost more in Europe? I wonder will it replace my lava lamp?

hu_hu_cool

Ikea makes virtually the same thing in strip-light form for like $40. Far better deal.

mullingitover

I suppose that if they had some way to make the light ambiently the same colour as your television, it could have some use

peteyale