THE BEST Lamps

An palm-sized, energy-efficient laser-based nightlight that projects hundreds of tiny blue points of light around your room. Uses just 0.4 watt of power, and can travel anywhere thanks to its AAA battery power source.

One does not simply walk into your cubicle – especially if you’ve got it lit up with this miniature Barad-dûr, perfect for illuminating your keyboard and mouse – assuming you don’t mind having your flesh seared off.

It’s hardly the first of its kind, and it doesn’t have any fancy features either. But that’s exactly the point: these affordable LED bulbs just might make customers ditch incandescent and CFL bulbs.

Design collective mostlikely’s 3D lampshades come in a variety of animal heads and shapes that you fold and glue together yourself. They can be floor, desk, pendant or even head mounted.

Pascal Howe’s The Worker is a 13ft. high lamp that looks like a huge construction toy (or a construction tool dropped at an alien landing site). Keep tabs on Howe’s Facebook page for purchase info.

Custom bike shop Classified Moto puts some of its surplus parts to good use by turning them into lamps. The parts come from 70s and 80s Japanese motorcycles and still bear dings and dents from use.

Lumio borrows from the form of a book. Its body is made of Tyvek, while the cover is made of wood with neodymium magnets inside. The lamp also has a rechargeable battery that lasts up to 8 hours.

Display your lens-shaped mug, lens-shaped thermos, and lens-shaped shot glass under the DSLR Paparazzi, a varnished wooden lamp made by Monoculo Shop. Lens hood is removable/reversible.

Chen Bikovski designed a series of night lights with children’s popup books in mind. Pulling the tab on this awesome deer design brings the ears up and illuminates the room with antlers made of light.

The only thing wrong with Emergency Essentials’ product is its name – it’s actually a lamp that uses liquid paraffin. Its flame is odorless and smokeless, and many users swear by its longevity.

Ed Carpenter’s Pigeon Light is a whimsical take on your favorite urban bird – “the rat with wings” as we call it. At least this one won’t crap on your head. Available in various natural and unnatural colors.

Pushing 1600+ lumens, this unique heat-sink-free LED bulb is claimed to be as bright as a 100-watt incandescent bulb while using only 12 watts of power. Also available in a 10W/75W equivalent.

The Good Night Lamp is actually made of at least two Internet-connected lamps. Turn the Big Lamp on or off and all Little Lamps connected to it will do the same. A warm way of sending a message.

LEGO Certified Professional Sean Kenney has created a unique series of sculptural modern lamps built out of LEGO bricks – mimicking the shape of lathed wood. Available in 5 styles and 10 colors.

Designed by Mike Garner, the Piccolo lamp has a minimal look but is packed with features. It has a touch-sensitive switch and it’s dimmable, adjustable and can be powered via outlet or USB.

This jellyfish-inspired light is built out of silicone and uses suction to hold onto windows so its built-in solar panels can gather up enough energy to provide you with illumination throughout the night.

This one-of-a-kind fixture was made from a 1950s arcade game. It’s been retrofitted with fluorescent tubes and glowing marbles by Renegade Vintage. This coat rack came from the same machine.

Instead of a light bulb mounted on its top, the LightDrive has LEDs at its base. Its design lets it emit a warm light equivalent to a 65-70W bulb while only consuming 13W and without running hot.

Juniper’s M Lamp is as useful as it is beautiful. It’s made from aluminum and steel and has a built-in rechargeable battery, so it’s equally at home outdoors as it is indoors.

Looking for some wall lamps to go along with your gun table lamps? These deadly sconces by ceramicist Ryan Weigner of Loaded Objects should do the trick. Also available: an AK-47 floor lamp.

For his Brecce collection, designer Marco Stefanelli combined sawmill scraps and other waste materials with resin and LEDs to make wonderful organic lamps that are eye-catching yet still subdued.

Guilhem de Castelbajac’s Off Duty No More is a limited edition line of used taxi cab lights re-purposed as interior lamps. If you act quickly you can get them on Fab for nearly half the price.

Just like the Battle Mug, the Andromeda is inspired by military equipment and also makes use of Picatinny rails. Its legs and panels are affixed to its body via rail mounts for easy adjustment.

Evil Robot Designs has new eye-catching toy-lamp amalgams featuring action figures from famous franchises such as Alien, Transformers, Toy Story, Star Wars, Batman, He-Man and more.

What was once a concept is now reality, as bitplay has actually released this whimsical lamp, which comes with a gun-shaped remote to “shoot” the lampshade from across the room so it falls over.

The LuminAID is the world’s first inflatable solar-powered LED lamp. Just 4 hours under full sunlight is enough to power it for 6 to 10 hours. Product demo at 0:50. Another demo video here.