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Lamp Made Out of its Own Packaging
Posted by Mark Wilson at 9:50 AM on August 16, 2008
Reviewing gadgets on a normal basis, you really come to realise how incredible wasteful all the packaging is. Something is shipped to you in a box that's packed with styrofoam. Inside it, you find another box packed with more styrofoam and whatever good you ordered. But this Package Lamp is different. It has no extra packaging because it is the packaging.
An egg-cartony, paper pulp box, the container is shaped like a lamp and thereby becomes a lamp. It stores the necessary hardware safely inside. And when the lamp arrives at its destination, the bulb and other electrical materials can be repositioned in their more precarious (installed) positions.
Sure, you can't necessarily build every electronic in this manner. But I'm thinking a cardboard computer isn't out of the question. [Dezeen via Treehugger]
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jschell
Posted 10:04 AM 16/8/08
Now that is a good lookin' lamp.
jschell
P3nnst8r needs a jorb
Posted 9:57 AM 16/8/08
@P3nnst8r needs a jorb: or of the box, i guess it should be.
P3nnst8r needs a jorb
P3nnst8r needs a jorb
Posted 9:57 AM 16/8/08
That's thinking inside the box right thar.
P3nnst8r needs a jorb
xashinx
Posted 9:56 AM 16/8/08
Sweet I've always wanted to break my lamp by karate chopping it.
xashinx
livinzlife
Posted 9:55 AM 16/8/08
I could make a lamp out of my crap, that doesn't make it cool. besides, find me a shipping service for a lamp shaped box that isn't inside a standard box.
livinzlife
doofusgumby
Posted 9:54 AM 16/8/08
and duct tape.
don't forget the duct tape.
doofusgumby
vinnyr
Posted 11:35 AM 16/8/08
THere is such things as cardboard computers, google it... and you will find alot of pictures of cardboard cases.
vinnyr
logruszed
Posted 12:01 PM 16/8/08
You can put it on your coffee table made out of a book about coffee tables.
logruszed
stonedbeyondthepoint
Posted 11:45 AM 16/8/08
WARNING: MAY SET YOUR HOUSE ON FIRE.
stonedbeyondthepoint
bucho54
Posted 1:21 PM 16/8/08
I think this is a good idea that was poorly executed. They should have hired an origami master to create a cube that transforms into an aesthetically pleasing lamp while still protecting the innards while in cube form.
bucho54
dvdman98
Posted 3:30 PM 16/8/08
Um Ikea has been selling better looking lamps that are packed in there shade for some time.
Weak sauce.
dvdman98
vesuvian
Posted 5:09 PM 16/8/08
If you rub it, it turns into a chandelier.
vesuvian
Emiat
Posted 4:08 PM 16/8/08
@bucho54: If a origami master created that lamp how would the average person be able to fold it to the original design if people still struggle with flatpack stuff.
Emiat
hu_hu_cool
Posted 9:34 PM 16/8/08
The whole idea of making a lampshade out of packaging is to save space. Its a concept i have worked with many times. But this appears that the lampshade isnt saving any real space. There still seems to be a lot of space wasted.
hu_hu_cool
strider_mt2k
Posted 10:18 PM 16/8/08
Meh.
Like making a cube-shaped lamp would be so hard.
strider_mt2k
xzenkx
Posted 12:23 AM 17/8/08
I don't think I'd mind looking at it too much, but it's asymmetrical! =(
xzenkx
chizelord
Posted 2:53 AM 17/8/08
@hu_hu_cool: maybe im just missing something but i dont think this was to save space. I think it was just to be different. and they failed.
chizelord
Collins1
Posted 4:12 AM 17/8/08
right waY
Collins1
Collins1
Posted 4:12 AM 17/8/08
Ikea made the packaging out of the light. That's the right war round. And it only cost GB£3
Collins1
jammadave
Posted 7:06 AM 17/8/08
Awww. I don't love lamp.
jammadave
bucho54
Posted 2:21 AM 18/8/08
@Emiat: The creation is what the master is needed for. That does not mean complexity, just a well thought out design. My experience has been that even complex origami designs can be unfolded and folded by an average person. The paper "wants" to fall back into place. My point was that in it's current state few will want it.
bucho54
groverdog
Posted 1:27 PM 18/8/08
shouldn't anything that holds electricity be waterproof?
groverdog
SleepingMartyr
Posted 12:28 AM 19/8/08
thats quite the material. can this thing carry your eggs too? or better yet, cook them?
SleepingMartyr