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OLED Dandelion

OLED Dandelion
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One of designer Takao Inoue’s artistic goals is to capture fleeting moments and preserve them. His unique tabletop curiosity does just that, freezing a puffy dandelion about to release its seeds inside an acrylic block, illuminated in space with a smooth, OLED light source.

DIY Flexible LED Work Lamp

DIY Flexible LED Work Lamp

Adam Savage recently found himself in need of a more versatile workbench lamp. So being the maker that he is, he crafted a snake-like LED light using off-the-shelf parts. Here’s the LED panel, Loc-Line, ball socket, flare nozzle, armature wire, and power supply he used.

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A Christmas Story Manly Lamp

A Christmas Story Manly Lamp

Jackman Works‘ manly new take on the iconic leg lamp from A Christmas Story. Gone is the soft glow of electric sex gleaming in the window, replaced by a masculine carved wood limb, its foot wrapped with a rugged Carolina Boot. Complete build log on Instructables.

Folding Candle Lantern

Folding Candle Lantern

Garrett Wade’s portable lantern is a reproduction of a vintage design called “The Stonebridge,” which can be folded to just 3/4″ tall when flat, then pops open to 8-1/2″ tall. It’s made from brass with heat-resistant mica windows, and provides flicker-free airflow.

King Edison Ghost Pendant Lamp

King Edison Ghost Pendant Lamp
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A truly unique way to hang a chandelier from your ceiling – Young & Battaglia’s pendant lamp features a miniature brass chandelier that hangs inside of a handblown black glass shade. Each teensy candle features an LED lamp at its tip. Measures appx. 8.25″ h x 6″ dia.

DIY 3D Pen Lamp Shade

DIY 3D Pen Lamp Shade

Inspire to Make shows off a neat project you can do with one of those 3Doodler pens. By using a glass lampshade as a form, then doodling shapes over the shade, you can create a one-of-a-kind original shade.

Baymax LED Lamp

Baymax LED Lamp
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Big Hero 6 fans will want to get their credit cards out now for this officially-licensed – and officially adorable LED lamp based on our bulbous hero Baymax. It’s USB powered, and has several light modes, including one to help you drift off to sleep.

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Pac-Man Ghost Light

Pac-Man Ghost Light
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This pixelated ghost lamp can emulate Inky, Blinky, Pinky, Clyde and a dozen other ghosts that didn’t appear in Pac-Man, since it can change between 16 different colors, in smooth, flashing, or music-sync modes. Measures ~8.25″ high.

Electromagnetic Table

Electromagnetic Table

Inspired by the work of Nikola Tesla, designer Florian Dussopt’s EM table produces a low-current electromagnetic field, allowing fluorescent bulbs placed on or near its surface to wirelessly illuminate.

6ft 6in Lamp

6ft 6in Lamp
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A sculptural lamp with gangly legs rocking wooden Jordans and packaged in a wooden shoebox. 6ft 6in is an homage to His Airness made by artist Kimou Meyer aka Grotesk. It’s really just 30″ tall though.

Cord Lamp

Cord Lamp
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Designed by Form Us With Love, the Cord Lamp turns the aesthetically disruptive part of a lamp into its main attraction. Made of a textile cord and a steel tube. A smaller version is also available.

Super Bowl Lamp

Super Bowl Lamp

One of the more clever IKEA hacks we’ve seen in a while. Using a bunch of plastic cups, plates, and bowls, artist Ognev Vlaminck managed to put together this functional and stylish table lamp.

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Cereal Bowl Lamp

Cereal Bowl Lamp

All you need to do to illuminate this Cereal Bowl Lamp from ideaka is to touch the metal spoon. It’s still a concept, but it might be fun to immortalize a favorite childhood (or adult) breakfast memory.

Bang! Lamp Concept

Bang! Lamp Concept

Bitplay INC specialize in designing gadgets that are fun to use. Their Bang! concept lamp has a gun-shaped remote used to switch it off. The shade even tips to the side when the lamp is “hit”.

Box Light

Box Light
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The idea for Jonas Hakaniemi’s aluminum and plastic Box Light was derived from a matchbox. Offered in 2 colors, the lamp can be hidden or exposed as you like by adjusting it with your hand.

Celebrity Lamp

Celebrity Lamp
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We prefer to call it the Aviator Lamp, because that’s what this is – a light bulb surrounded by 40 pairs of mirrored aviators, which cast a kaleidoscope of shadows when the lamp is lit.

OO!2 Lighting Collection

OO!2 Lighting Collection

These sleek OO!2 Circular lights from Teun Fleskens emit ambient light from the edges of the circles and can be used as hanging or tabletop lamps. Offered in acrylic or wood veneer finish.

Leaf Personal Light

Leaf Personal Light
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Yves Béhar’s striking LED Leaf light for Herman Miller allows the user to control the intensity and light color (warm or cool) by sliding a finger along a groove in the lamp base. (Thanks Ron!)

Crystal LED Modular Lamp

Crystal LED Modular Lamp

This unusual lighting from QisDesign lets you magnetically snap together individual color-changing LED “crystal” pods to create unique fixtures to suit your liking.

Coil Lamp

Coil Lamp
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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.

Sleeping Biscuit Lamp

Sleeping Biscuit Lamp

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.

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