Awesome Lighting

Quantify your lighting with Firebox’s officially licensed Scrabble Tile Lights. Each set comes with seven light up tiles that connect to an oversized Scrabble tray. You also get 60 reusable stickers so you can customize the tiles.

StudioKnob’s Click Light features LED lights intertwined inside ropes with magnetic ends. The lights activate when a rope is connected to the base shelves, which have low voltage electricity running through metal surfaces underneath each shelf.

DreamScreen offers LED backlighting systems for a wide range of TV and monitor sizes. They even have support for 4K TVs. The backlighting can augment not just video but also music playback. They can also serve as standalone ambient lighting.

Jangir Maddadi Design Bureau’s made-to-order Droid Lamp was inspired by many a child’s imagination of robots and life in outer space. It has a classy yet retro-futuristic design and has LEDs on both ends. It also has a dimmer function. Available in brass or coated steel.

The Fowndry’s officially licensed Star Wars lamp is based on the design of the classic articulating Anglepoise lamp. Its head is designed to look like a TIE Fighter and plugs in via USB. Sadly, it doesn’t make the TIE Fighter’s intimidating noise.

LIFX’s Mini LED bulbs offer an affordable way to enter the world of home automation and smart lightbulbs. Available in color and white versions, the Mini emits 800 lumens of light and works with Apple HomeKit out of the box.

Adding a security camera is as simple as screwing in a light bulb with LightCam. It’s an LED bulb that has a built-in 1080p camera. You can adjust the bulb’s length and tilt the camera up and down. It also has night vision, and can store a week’s worth of footage.

An affordable and user-friendly solar home solution. Biolite’s SolarHome 620 consists of a 6W solar panel, a plug-and-play control box that has a 20Wh battery, a music player, a light and USB charging ports, and three daisy chained lights with individual switches.

Neon lights are incredibly hard to make and require specialized equipment. Thankfully, arts and crafts master Shmoxd came up with a way to effectively imitate that neon glow using polycarbonate tubing and electroluminescent wire.

SnapPower’s GuideLight is a power outlet cover with a built-in LED nightlight that draws power directly from the outlet. The latest version has a diffuser cover, an on/off switch and brightness settings. It also has a GFCI-compatible variant.

Etsy store NancysJars makes LED night lights out of old VHS tapes. You can customize the LEDs and the picture. The latter doesn’t have to be from a movie, but if it is the shop will do its best to use a tape of that movie to make the night light. It’s powered by AAA batteries.

Power Practical’s follow up to the original Luminoodle. The Luminoodle Task has magnetic sliders and oversized loops on both ends, making them more versatile than their predecessor. It’s also water- and dust-resistant and has a variant that can daisy chained.

Bare Conductive’s Electric Paint Kit comes with an LED light, conductive paint and paper templates. It lets you make a touch-sensitive lamp, a motion-sensitive lamp and a dimmable lamp, no tools or computer needed. You can also use the LEDs in more complex projects.

The Orrery Lamp is a beautiful dimmable light inspired by its namesake. Although it’s not to scale, you can move the Earth and Moon models around the lamp to mimic the celestial bodies’ positions at any point in time. Available as a desk lamp or a floor lamp.

Part lamp, part art, part air. Ingo Maurer’s Blow Me Up is a packable LED light. It has a lightweight inflatable case, so you can use it in a variety of ways. You can hang it, lean it against the wall, or carry it around.

A waterproof portable light that’s designed to fire light straight down while leaving room for your hands underneath. Its foldable legs automatically snap open when you take it out of its carrying case. It has three brightness settings and lasts up to 50h per charge.

Kikkerland’s Fiets are a pair of push button LED lights – one white and one red. You attach them to your bicycle using the silicone straps. But they also come with hook and loop straps so you can wear them or hang them on your bag.

Matt Gilbert’s Crane Lamp lets you drastically change its height and shape just by pushing or pulling its body. With its exposed scissor structure, it revels in its mechanical form and encourages you to use it and inspect how it works.

Leslie Nooteboom’s Komorebi projects soothing computer-generated light shows. While it can project anything, Leslie intends for Komorebi to display visuals that mimic natural light, such as a silhouette of a window or light bouncing off of a body of water.

Instructables member bongoboy23 won the DIY site’s Lights Contest 2017 with his programmable infinity mirror coffee table. It has forty individual infinity mirrors and over 960 LEDs. It also has four USB ports, two AC outlets and an inductive pad for charging.

UCO Gear’s brilliant tent stake comes with a waterproof LED light. It runs for up to 10h on a single AAA battery, and also has a strobe mode. You can even take the light out of the stake and use it on its own. It also has a variant that lights up red, green, and blue.

DIY Perks made an accent light using RGB LEDs and a Selenite crystal. It sounds like a straightforward build, but he custom made most of the electronics. It does involve a few tricks that will come in handy for other projects, and the result is, in his words, “not bad.”

The latest additions to BioLite’s USB-powered packable lights. The Mini comes with four small lights, while the XL is one lantern in a clever collapsible diffuser. Both can be daisy chained with other SiteLights and can be dimmed when connected to one of BioLite’s lanterns.