These dynamic modern lights from Japan create a cool glow in any space without need for connecting them to an external power source.
Kyouei Design’s Mobile Lights store solar energy during the day, and automatically turn on when its dark. If there’s not enough daylight to keep them charged, that’s okay, since each segment has a set of AA batteries inside to keep them glowing too.
Each set of three LED lights hangs from your ceiling by sturdy nylon fishing line, creating a swoopy kinetic sculpture in any room. You can find Mobile Lights at Kyouei’s online shop for ¥21,100 (appx. $213 USD).
Written by technabob on November 4th, 2008 with no comments.
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Usually when I think about X-rays, it conjures up images of sitting on a table in an ill-fitting hospital gown with a weighty lead apron draped over some part of my body. Fortunately, these X-ray lamps require not so much as a visit to the doctor’s office.
Designer Wonsuk Cho created these pendant lamps using actual X-rays of incandescent and compact fluorescent light bulbs.
Alas and alack, there is no information on if or when you’ll ever be able to buy these for your own pad. For now, you’ll have to settle for something a little less elegant. Just slice up that old film of your fractured limb, glue it onto the sides of an Artemide Petronilla ceiling fixture and hang it up.
[via MocoLoco via Design Zen]
Written by technabob on October 21st, 2008 with no comments.
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It’s amazing what a difference a couple of decades makes. Back in the 1970s, fiber optic lamps were some of the ugliest, tackiest things you could possibly bring into your home. And as this photo proves, fiber optics can truly be used for evil. Thankfully, tastes have changed, and the dynamic illumination medium has found new life in this modern lighting fixture.
Created by Jakob Staer of German lighting maker Refer + Staer, Black Fiber is the name of this futuristic pendant lamp, which gets lights up your space using hundreds of tiny fiber optic strands.
Black Fiber lamps are available from Swedish design house PID in medium (21.7″ diameter) and large (35.4″ diameter) variants.
The fixtures are available as shown, or with an additional 20W halogen bulb in the center to provide additional spot illumination. Prices range from $2800 to $3800 USD, a far cry from the tacky $29 fiber optic lamps of my youth.
Written by technabob on September 23rd, 2008 with no comments.
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This is one of the coolest ways to get out of housework that I’ve seen yet. Who cares that it does a crappy job. Fact is, you are getting out of doing housework. It was designed by Servet Kocyigit as an art piece in 2005. It’s named Blue Side Up and if you only have a small strip of floor that gets dirty, or if that is all you care to clean, this is the perfect solution.
Of course, one big drawback to this is that you would never be able to close the doors in the rooms where the broom sweeps. Pretty neat. But a dangling monkey with some scrubbing tools would be far more entertaining, zooming around your home. Of course, then you would have to clean up after it. So, I guess this idea is as good as it’s likely to get.
[Blue Side Up] VIA [Ohgizmo]
Written by Conner Flynn on February 25th, 2008 with no comments.
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We were impressed with Atlas Devices’ Rope Ascender when we saw it earlier this year, but the company, run by 23-year-old Nathan Bell, has refined the original design and is ready to start marketing the third generation of the device. Hack A Day got to play with one and they found that the new version is not only easier to use and less damaging to the rope, but also lighter and more efficient. Atlas is initially pitching these at the military, but we can see these being huge hits with the high school gym class market.
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Written by Nilay Patel on September 2nd, 2007 with no comments.
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