Awesome Lighting

Guitar players looking for a way to stand out on stage, take a look at these LED picks from Santa Cruz Light Wells. The picks can even be used as a light-up metronome to keep you on beat.

From the the whole-is-much-greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts file: Craighton Berman’s Coil Lamp, made from a 100′ extension cord that’s wrapped around a laser-cut clear acrylic form.

This concept light switch shows a map your home, with the location of lights indicated by light bulb icons. Pressing any of the icons turns on the corresponding light. What a bright idea.

There is a certain imperfect and asymmetric appeal in the harlequin-patterned Sleeping Biscuit lamp, made of unglazed porcelain, from Moscow-based designer Dima Loginoff.

Lamponi’s Lamps are high-end, lighthearted lights; one-of-a-kind and made from vintage pieces, his lamps include everything from repurposed scooters to aluminum aircraft.

The office task lamp gets supersized with Itre’s Great JJ Lamp; nobody will be swiping this from your desk, assuming you can fit it on there: it stands 14 feet tall and is outdoor friendly.

Good news if you like your gadgets green: Lexon has released a rather large line of bamboo gadgets, appliances, and accessories including radios, calculators, and lighting.

99 bottles of beer on the wall ceiling: Tejas’ Beer Bottle Lights are made with empty bottles and 10 to 12 gauge steel; choices range from basic fixtures to a giant 40″ 2-tier pool chandelier.

Rechristen your living room the HMS Awesome with this Sealight Floor Lamp; based on a 19th century British marine light used to transmit Morse, it’s made with solid cast aluminum.

Always two there are, a lightsaber and a base: this 13.75″ USB Lightsaber Lamp not only lights up the Dark Side but detaches to do battle–when fully charged with The Force, of course.

This 14 Day Lantern will last longer than we will in the great outdoors; its LEDs will produce 160 lumens of light on 4 D batteries for up to 336 hours and will work even if dropped in water.

Flash on, dude: HexoLights are red, yellow, and blue LED light pods that sync with any sound source including iPods any consoles; snap them together to build your own custom set-up.

While it may not be bright enough to signal the Dark Knight, this Batlamp is ideal for do-gooder decorating; made with cardboard and RGB LEDs, the lighting is controlled by Arduino.

Due out Spring 2010, the ReNu is an eco-friendly three-fer: the modular solar panel can power a Regen-designed iPod/iPhone dock, a speaker dock, or even an LED desk lamp.

They may look like beakers, but they’re just bulbs: Benjamin Hubert’s Labware Lamps are ideal for mad scientists; each stands 16″ high with both pendant and floor lamps available.

They look like regular keys, but these CTRL and SHIFT Key Lamps are ginormous; available in white or yellow, they use an LED and are intuitive: press down to turn them on/off.

It may be a little bit geeky, but you’ll be guaranteed the full color spectrum with this Ink Cartridge Lamp; it uses the same eight Epson K3 cartridges found in 7800 and 9800 series printers.

With burnished steel, brushed brass, textile cables and tube bulbs aplenty, Frank Buchwald’s Machine Lights are a steampunkers’ dream come true; each is unique and made to order.

LEDSAUR is a funky-yet-cool T-Rex desk lamp with LEDs in the spine; it’s made out of stainless steel, but bendable joints let you strike your favorite terrible thunder lizard pose.

Philips’ Master LED bulb is next generation lighting in a traditional form factor; it provides 40W light with only 7W and also lasts 45,000 hours–45x longer than incandescents.

You’ll only be able to pull off this Hockey Arena Chandelier at a bachelor pad, so live it up, single dudes. Ice not your thing? Check out these Hoops and Skateboard pendants.

Created in 1970 by Christian R‚àö¬âˆ‚der, the Joker Light looks more Batman than Joker; the hand-assembled pendant lamp has been reissued by Le Klint and is available in black or white.

Let their be light … and sound: this SoundBulb concept seems a mite futuristic, as it not illuminates with LED lamps but streams music via Wi-Fi or bluetooth through 8ohm speakers.