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Piet Portable Fireplace Looks Like Something NASA Made

7:00AM Sean Fallon | Astronauts making s’mores in a fireplace on the ISS? Not likely, but if NASA ever did develop a portable fireplace it might look something like the Piet. More »
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Torn Disguised Lighting Looks Like Slits into Parallel LED Universe

8:18PM Gizmodo US Edition | Designer Billy May has come up with his Torn Lighting concept as a discreet way of adding some light to your apartment. The installations conceal LED lights, and look like you’ve got some kind of weird space-time holes torn into your walls and leaking light into your room. Pretty neat, and a nice way of getting mood light from LEDs without the risk of you being dazzled by their exposed faces. Now if only there was a way to animate the walls to get a proper rippling effect… [Yanko Designs] More »
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Mobile Light is Solar Powered, Won’t Increase Your Sex Appeal

12:00PM Haroon Malik | The Kyouei Design house has come up with the fantastically titled, Mobile Light, which incorporates a small solar panel bed at one end and a light at the other. Activation is automatically instigated once the ambient light levels fall below a certain threshold, which ensures the stored energy is put to good use quickly. Sure, it may not output enough of the bright stuff for you to make it down the stairs safely, read a book in bed or take a piss without dribbling all about the floor / toilet rim, but that’s what the main lights are for. More »