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Design

Pillet TP Holder Becomes A Lamp When You Squeeze The Charmin

3:00AM Sean Fallon | Designer Miguel Melgarejo’s Axixia building urinal was absurd, but he truly outdid himself with the Pillet energy-generating toilet paper holder/lamp. More »
Design

Cassette Tape Lamps Illuminate As MP3s Never Will

7:00AM Mark Wilson | It’s true, you’ll only capture the effect of this picture if you buy many cassette tape lamps. The purchase of just one (in a motif not dissimilar from the consumption of one Lay’s potato chip) will lead to inevitable disappointment. More »
Design

Touch Interactive DVD Player Looks Like the Lamp iMacs

7:00AM Jason Chen | Apple may have strayed away from design that looks like a table lamp, but Touch Interactive is having none of that. Their Hybrid DVD Player and Display unit has the same weiner tip base as the old iMac, but instead of a levered arm attached to the display, this goes straight up and out. We may not have much use for an all-in-one DVD player unit around our houses, but dentist’s offices, rich people’s kitchens and sperm banks have much different needs than we do. [Touch Interactive via Cyber Theater] More »
Gadgets

Brain Lamp is New Gizmodo Leader, Future Galactic Emperor

9:56PM Addy Dugdale | When I saw this come up in my RSS feeds, I thought it said Brian Lam, and so I got rather excited. I was, however, (as I so frequently am) wrong. This lamp is the brainchild of Alexander Lervik, who had an MR scan done in Stockholm of his own grey matter, before printing up the results on a 3-D printer. “Yes,” he says about his creation. “It is bright.” Oh, no one loves a smart arse, Lervik. [Lervik] More »