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Lifegoods Two Lamps: A Stylish Two in One Solution

We were pretty impressed by the Swiss design studio Lifegoods when we saw the Two-Lamps desk lamp. It combines two lamps into one, a flashlight and a desk lamp. Lifegoods' most recent work was feature...

SunNight Solar BoGo Flashlight Lights Up Lives

Here's a home tech item designed with pragmatic and humanitarian goals in mind. Like the OLPC laptop program, where the purchase of a laptop results in the donation of another laptop for a child in a ...

Lee Broom: Embellishing Old Stuff with New Tech

These art pieces aren't exactly anything you'd buy for your home. But it's pretty interesting to see what some designers are doing to mix technology with home furnishings, and the results are surprisi...

Rainbow Star LED Lamps: Changing The Mood of Any Room

We are fans of LED lamps. The enable you to change the mood and atmosphere of a room quite easily. Rainbow Star Lamps from Lumenworks are color-changing LED lamps. Just like the LivingColor lights fro...

Flat Glass Panels to Kill the Lightbulb?

Planilum. What sounds like the material that should be powering the flux capacitor in Marty McFly's Delorean is actually a special type of light emitting glass. At first glance, it looks like many of ...

Berkeley Lamp II: The Lamp that Science Built

There's nothing too remarkable about this lamp at first glance. It just looks like your run-of-the-mill mass-production hotel nightstand lamp. But this one claims to be "The Only Lamp Built By Science...

Industrial Chic Meets Crystal Elegance in These Lights

Mixing styles is a slippery slope. Do it right and you're the champion of eclectic styling. Do it wrong and it's a horrible disaster. Here's someinspiration to hopefully get it right: Michael McHale's...

One Man's Trash is Another Man's Luxury Pendant Lamp

If you can't buy expensive recycled light fixtures made from reclaimed wood and plastic, the next best thing is to look like you did, right? The designer of this lamp, the "Pendant Light," saw a plast...

Beehouse Lamp: Bee-Inspired With Honeycombs

Using the bee's building process as inspiration, this clever Beehouse Lamp made of white plastic, paired with yellow colored crystals to emulate the honey seen in natural beehive designs. Laser-etched...

Black Fiber Pendant Lamp: A Retro-Styled Fiber-Optic Chandelier

Fiber-optic lighting has really come a long way from its initial tacky roots. This incredible pendant lamp/chandelier was created by Jakob Staer of the German lighting maker Refer + Staer. The Black F...

Look! White Is the New Black

Oooh how we love white electronics. We're not sure if it started with the iBook or with Woody Allen's Sleeper, but there's something about a room filled with shiny white things that just makes us fee...

Coin Lamp Helps You Save Out of Neccessity

We all know how much AT cares about "going green" in your household and your daily life. But, hey... green is expensive! We know that it's cheaper and better in the long run to invest in solar panels ...

Final Frame: Light Bright

Flickr user Steve modded his daughter's stackable Fisher Price toy with $2 LEDs. ...

Good Questions: Battery Powered Table Lamps

Julie has a question for us about getting light into her outlet challenged brownstone. I've recently moved into a fantastic (but very old) brownstone in Brooklyn. It's beautiful, but there's one pro...

AmpLamp: Making Multi-Tasking Tech Look Good

We're all about integrating technology components into great design. Even better when you can get two tech tools in there. This unit is a combination lamp/speaker system, but we love it most for the f...

Constellation Chandelier: Incredible Lighting From The Stars

What's amazing about this modern piece of lighting is how organic it looks. The individual cords are bunched-up together and will attract the eye no matter where it is placed. This incredible looking ...

Block Light: Lighting, One Piece at a Time

As a former Lego-maniac we've always held onto a deep seeded fondness for interlocking blocks of almost any kind. Partner this up with an interest for customization and DIY, and you'd be fair to assum...

Look! Fun Goods from Charles & Marie

Ok, so we've made a call on vintage tech becoming a new décor trend, but what about using vintage tech as a modding trend? Above you'll see the ear and mouth piece of an old school telephone receive...

Something We Won't be Picking Up Anytime Soon

This is good for a morning chuckle: With our love of Apartment Therapy's September Pets Month, we're stuck to our computer screens and making a mental list of some new toys and gadgets to pamper our P...

Bloom! Portable Lighting at Maison & Objet Paris 2008

Bloom! is the dutch company known for it's oversized, illuminated, polycarbonate planters and smaller, solar powered Daylight. Continuing the evolution of the Bloom! line is the newly introduced port...

Scrap Lights and Sketch Lights by Graypants

Funny names aside, here are two new lamp designs from the guys that brought you scrapchairs. First, on the same kick of recycled cardboard light fixtures from earlier today, we bring you Scrap Lights....

Shattered Lights Lamp: Turns Your Living Room Into A Deep Sea Adventure

Made from broken tempered glass, silicone and lined with LEDs, the Shattered Lights Lamp by designer Ira Rozhavsky looks more like an amoeba or creature from the bottom of the ocean than a lighting so...

Two-Faced Spark Lamp Is Gorgeous, Eco Friendly

When great technological functionality meets amazing design, Unplggd will be there. The Spark Lamp from designer Beverly Ng has a very practical application. It acts as a plant by day, soaking up rays...

Creston Home Automation Meets iPhone

Lighting and temperature control via WiFi or a 3G cellular connection. Nice. Sure, you can get something like the Lutron Aurora home lighting control kit for a really easy to setup solution, but noth...

Wireless Outdoor Speakerlight: Exactly as Described

Light, music and a nice spot on the back patio. Three things for a relaxing summer evening. Part garden lighting, part pendant lighting, however you decide to use it, you have a wireless speaker that ...