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.
LEDs are not only incredibly energy-efficient, but they’re also small enough to be squeezed into the tiniest of gadgets. Or in the case of the Lite Lite, a simple piece of paper that folds into a working torch.
Since buildings are already engineered to be strong and, you know, not collapse, suspending even the heaviest of chandeliers from the ceiling is no problem. That’s to say there’s no rhyme or reason why a hanging light needs to be made from lightweight carbon fibre, except that it’s just plain beautiful.
Made from lightweight aluminium alloy this sleek LED task lamp folds down to a compact package roughly the same size as Apple’s keyboards. So when not in use it can easily disappear on your desk under papers and other crap.
Does Melbourne need a 120m-tall observation wheel? The troubled attraction opened in 2009, shut down after cracks were spotted, and fixes were still underway last November when strong winds broke holds and the spinning wheel almost killed workers. But now, reports CNET, the engineers behind the London Eye have been brought in for a new design featuring 21 glass cabins and 3.6km of LED lights.
How do you fit a humongoid Anglepoise lamp in your home? Reduce it down to two dimensions and pack it full of LEDs, of course. Forged of birch and steel, Giles Godwin-Brown’s Nepa Lamp will sit flat on a wall, or spin out into the third dimension and totally screw with your head. I love it. [Design Milk]
Today during Sony’s CES press conference, Sir Howard Stringer oh-so-casually dropped news about this prototype Crystal LED display they have in the works. As it turns out, it’s probably the coolest thing Sony has at CES.
Any stroll through a school science fair proves that potatoes are a simple source of electricity. But did you know that enough apples, about 300, can power an LED lamp? Time to get planting!
If you’re low on the corporate ladder at work, you’re probably stuck under a bank of fluorescent lights without a window in sight. But with Fraunhofer’s new LED enhanced ceilings, a beautiful sky view doesn’t require a corner office.
