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Let Your Walls Light Up The Room With LED Wallpaper

Who needs lamps when you can make your walls literally light up on their own? They can if you cover them with a coating of LED wallpaper. Wallpaper might be a little past its prime, but with a little infusion of tech and some neat geometric designs, maybe it’s time to reconsider.

17 May 2013

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Water-Activated LED Wall: Sounds Dangerous, Looks Beautiful

Water and electricity: historically, not a great combo! But Antonin Fourneau, a French artist and engineer, combines both to remarkable ends in his installation, Water Light Graffiti, which landed in New York this week.

10 November 2012

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Torch Bazooka Blasts Your Target With Blinding Light

Realising that lots of people pretend they’re holding a deadly weapon when wielding a torch, the makers of the Dogstar designed it to look like a handheld cannon straight out of a sci-fi epic. The beam is even turned on using a trigger instead of a button, so you can pretend those harmless photons it emits are a deadly spray of ammunition.

19 October 2012

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A Magnetic Ball Joint Lets You Precisely Target This Lamp’s Glow

Challenging the iconic Luxo lamp when it comes to flexibility, Michel Charlot’s U-Turn light trades the complicated springs for a brilliantly simply magnetic ball joint. So you can use it as an adjustable desk lamp when working, or flip it over and illuminate an entire room in a spotlight configuration. It’s the lamp of a thousand uses (minus about 995).

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Mini Metropolis Bulb: Light Your Room With Softly Glowing Skyscrapers

Finding similarities between how penguins huddle together for warmth and humans create giant crowded cities, artist David Graas created this complex lightbulb that looks like a tiny metropolis is exploding from its glowing core.

8 September 2012

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These Magnets Turn Your Fridge Into A Retro LED Display

These fridge magnets might not be high-minded or particularly useful, but they will turn your fridge into something that looks like a 1980′s Casio digital watch.

17 August 2012

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Eureka: 9 Stunning Lightbulb Designs

Without light, we’d spend 10-12 hours a day unable to function (by modern standards at least). And sure, we’ve always had fire and candles, but it wasn’t until the advent of electricity, and then the lightbulb, that man conquered the dark once and for all.

22 July 2012

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Those Lightsabre Chopsticks Now Light-Up

If you thought nothing could ever top those Star Wars-themed chopsticks that looked exactly like miniature lightsabres, you’re about to have your mind blown wide open again. Because thanks to improvements in miniature LED and battery technology, those lightsabre chopsticks now feature a glowing blade.

15 July 2012

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You Can Bend And Contort This Flexible Ribbon Lamp Into Any Position Imaginable

Ideal for makers and tinkerers who often need a light source as close to what they’re working on as possible, this beautiful LED desklamp was designed by Alberto Fraser with an incredibly flexible transparent PVC neck making it almost infinitely adjustable.

12 May 2012

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Clip These Adorable LED Cubes Anywhere The Sun Don’t Shine

There’s no shortage of compact stick-on, clip-on, magnetic LED lights out there. And if you want your product to stand out, you better focus on features or design. So Osram has concentrated on the latter with its lovely Cuby light and its flexible clip.

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