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Mickey bulbs for Mickey fans. From designer Hong-kue Lee, these LED lights are especially created for kids, to bring them closer to the world that Mickey lives in.

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Launched by Japan-based Panasonic, this is the world’s first LED bulb that uses clear glass to show the light source. It features a single filament, coming with a power of 4.4 watts while lasting for over 40,000 hours. Requiring no time to get prepared, the bulb offers 100% of the light once you switch it on, and thus quite ideal for public places like the stairs and toilets. As a bonus, the bulb is announced to get a high efficiency, even remaining high lumen of 70% at end of life.

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Any design that features a high efficiency while a low cost is always appreciated, especially when they can bring something good to the environment. That’s why we love the concept of the Inflatable Solar Power Light, an inflatable, waterproof bag built with an LED bulb inside. It can get charged with a solar cell and comes with a battery that holds enough electricity for six hours of light on the low setting. As the light is designed for developing countries that lack electricity, it would be sold at a low price after its launch in January of 2012.

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The stability of wood and the elasticity of spring are seemingly two completely opposite characters, however in the “Lights Up” Nakarin Kemseela has successfully combined that two characters together by designing an adjustable wood frame lampshade. The result is quite amazing, coz the lamp not only features an interesting aesthetic, but also emphasizes big convenience for users to freely adjust the quantity of light. Fabulous!

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Made of energy-efficient LED light and translucent fibers, the Hobo Lantern is a stylish bag that also doubles as a portable luminary. It was inspired by the urban nightlife of Zona Tortona during Design Week, and via the design Todd MacAllen aims to offer people some fashionable and functional accessories. Powered by 8 AA batteries, the Hobo can be safely used even when the LED light is turned on, and you may find it fabulous to go across the streets with a glowing bag.

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Question marks seem to appear everywhere in our life and now they even come as furniture. Designed by Tembolat Gugkaev, the new closet not only decorates your room but also brings light to it since it is built with a lamp on one side. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Artist Kelly Lamb’s Skull Chandelier is a hanging light that comes with a special shape of a human skull. To make such a light, you first need to hang some tiny lightbulbs from the ceiling and then arrange them into the shape of a skull. Cool, and we bet the chandelier will appear to be more fantastic when it shines in the dark. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Are there any methods, except for refreshing their appearances or changing their functionalities, which can bring us new unique lamps? Nodded with yes, London designer Roger Arquer has put forward the Touch Lamp Vase that is switched on/off by touching flowers in the adjoining vase. But why could it do that? [Read the rest of this entry...]

Surprised, ordinary sugar can be used as a sustainable resource to make lamps? But of course you may need other materials when to make a Crystallized Sugar LED Lamp as that of Won Joon Lee’s. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Commonly we see cartoonists use a lightbulb to present an idea or a thought rushing into the mind, but here we’ll see Solovyovdesign’s new bulbs in the same shape of your brain. They may look bit of weird, but we do hope your brains can create innovative ideas everyday just as the bulb lights up everyday. [Read the rest of this entry...]

A best combination of simplicity and functionality is the main goal of modern designs. Among numerous works created by designers all around the world, we find these LZF Lamps really deserve our introduction because they’ve achieved simple but incredible aesthetic effects with utilization of wood veneer shades. Awesome. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Ordinary lamps can never go behind desks for finding your because they’re not flat enough to do that, but fortunately you now have a new lamp that illuminate almost any spaces. It is the Looksoflat Lamp. The design is constructed of several LED bulbs and thus features a maximized simplicity. And its functionality? Don’t worry about that, as the lamp performs really well. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The market barely provides ideal lamps essential for modern lifestyle, giving rooms a romantic or hip-hop look. Addressing that issue, someone has come up with these Modular Lights-something that can be reassembled to meet your particular needs. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This particular lamp is named as the “LED Rope.” It’s designed by Christian Haas to bring light into your environment and features a fabulously cunning combination of advanced LED lights with cute textile knots. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Shaped like a piano and also named as a piano, these LED lamps allow you to produce a melody of light as your fingers slide across their keys. Something more impressive is that the illumination will be adjusted if you press these keys with various amounts of strength. [Read the rest of this entry...]