lamps
Gadgets
Telephone Company Ripping You Off? Get Revenge With This Lamp
11:21PM Rosa Golijan | Somehow it doesn’t seem like landline providers would be happy about people using the tiny bit of electricity coming through phone-jacks to power lamps, but this thing is so kitschy-looking that it’d be hard to resist. Plus it’s cheeeeeeap. More »
Science
Cheap, Printed Solar-Powered LEDs Could Change 1.5 Billion Lives
12:40PM Rosa Golijan | Photovoltaic cells printed on sheets aren’t news, nor are LEDs and ultrathin lithium batteries. What’s news is a combination of the three which can help give light to 1.5 billion people who live in impoverished areas without access to electricity. More »
Design
A Painfully Self-Aware Lamp
11:40AM Mark Wilson | Does the average lamp know that it’s a lamp? Verner Panton’s Wire Table Lamp, shaped like a very classy light bulb, seems to be aware of its place in the world. More »
Design
Rubik Lamp’s Pretty Puzzling Light
6:20AM Jesus Diaz | For now, the equally beautiful and dorky Rubik Lamp is just a resin prototype. Looking at its kaleidoscopic funkiness as it gets scrambled, however, I wish it was a real product available now. More »
Design
11:20AM Chris Jacob | Nothing makes for a better reading experience than the warm orange glow of fast food parking lot lighting. Now you can bring the effect home by sticking a traffic light in your living room. More »
Super Guppy Lamp Fills Your Home With Highway Lighting
11:20AM Chris Jacob | Nothing makes for a better reading experience than the warm orange glow of fast food parking lot lighting. Now you can bring the effect home by sticking a traffic light in your living room. More »
Design
Desk Lamp Rotates To Become A Light Box For Artists
4:00AM Sean Fallon | If you dabble in art and design, you will immediately see the benefit of a lamp that can rotate and adjust positions to become a light box. More »
Design
1:50AM Mark Wilson | If Tutankhamun died today, no one would wrap the Pharaoh in cloth — that stuff is useless when one’s body rises again in the afterlife. What any guy always needs on hand is a long, radioactive orange extension cord. More »
Lamp Mummified By Power Cord
1:50AM Mark Wilson | If Tutankhamun died today, no one would wrap the Pharaoh in cloth — that stuff is useless when one’s body rises again in the afterlife. What any guy always needs on hand is a long, radioactive orange extension cord. More »
Design
Decorate Science-Class-Style With Labware Lamps
9:40AM Mark Wilson | Benjamin Hubert’s Labware Lamps don’t merely breed nostalgia of our scientific conquests of yore; they’re hand-blown glass beakers plugged with Portuguese cork. In other words, they’ll impress your geeky and snobby friends alike. [Benjamin Hubert via moco loco]
Design
Concrete Lamp: Maybe It’s Time For A Stronger Desk
4:40AM Sean Fallon | If you have designs on this handsome Heavy Desk Light from Benjamin Hubert, you’ll probably want to ditch the cheap desk you bought at Officeworks. The base and the shade are both made from concrete. [BenjaminHubert via Dezeen]
Entertainment
3:20AM Jesus Diaz | As if the movie wasn’t good enough—the first ten minutes alone make it worth it, even if they kill me every single time—now you can get a real Luxo Jr lamp with this limited edition of Up! More »
Up! Limited Edition Blu-Ray To Come With Real Luxo Jr.
3:20AM Jesus Diaz | As if the movie wasn’t good enough—the first ten minutes alone make it worth it, even if they kill me every single time—now you can get a real Luxo Jr lamp with this limited edition of Up! More » 
