Awesome Lighting

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.

Inspired by an obstacle at a minigolf course, Himmee’s Loop is a table lamp that’s both whimsical and elegant. It has white LEDs that can be adjusted via a touch-sensitive dimmer. Himmee also offers a 6-foot-tall made-to-order version of the lamp.

Invented by Mike Neilson, the Switcheroo is an adapter that wirelessly reroutes switched outlets (outlets that are toggled by light switches). You can make Switcheroos pair one to one, or have one control many Switcheroos at once.

LightMode’s new and improved electroluminescent helmet lighting kit now has a more aerodynamic, water-resistant, detachable and USB-charged control unit. The kit has everything you need to decorate your helmet (and many other objects).

Form meets function in the URI LED bulbs. While many LED lamps have flat acrylic diffusers that mimic 3D shapes, URI embraces the shape of the classic light bulb while giving it a modern touch. Available in six designs and two sizes.

Gear Aid’s new LED lanterns are rechargeable via USB and have a diffuser bag, a hanging hook, a kickstand and a threaded mount so you can aim it in a variety of ways. The larger models also serve as external battery packs.

Designer Paul Foeckler’s Split Grain creates these modern, yet organic lighting fixtures by slicing layers of reclaimed wood, hand selected by the artist, then sectioned into layers and floated apart with metal rods to expose the warm ambient LED light source inside.

A modular lighting fixture that lets you build branching table lamps or chandeliers. It comes with a base Y-piece with a male socket and three female sockets, and an assortment of small and large Y-pieces with one male socket and two female sockets. Works with E12 bulbs.

Glen Lewis-Steele’s made-to-order LED lamp looks like a cube that changes its shape as you move around it. In fact, it’s not even a cube, and the LED isn’t inside it. But perhaps its greatest illusion is that it doesn’t look like something that should cost as much as a laptop.