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“Switch” is a liquid cooled lightbulb that combines analog and digital technology to bring light into your home. It was showcased during the CES2012, coming with a digital driver in the base and some LEDs mounted on the top. With the digital driver to monitor the bulb’s temperature all the time, the fluid inside the glass globe will draw heat from the LEDs if the temperature is too high. Such a unique function not only allows these lightbulbs to be used more widely, but ensures them a better lightening result. As an additional bonus, each component of the bulbs is reusable or recyclable, making them also ideal for the eco-friendly lifestyle.

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Your eyes are not telling you the facts or truth sometimes, because the Sticker Light Bulb is actually not high-tech gadgets as it may look in the image. It’s merely a black sticker with a bulb pattern, transforming any boring glasses or jars into a personalized lamp as you light a candle in those containers.

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Why are designers so innovative? Almost every time I met some new designs I would ask myself that question. So you know, that question emerged again, after I accidentally saw the AudioBulb, Wireless Speaker Light Bulbs that bring both light and music to your home. It’s easy to use: simply replace ordinary bulbs with the AudioBulb, insert you iPod into the included dock, and then you’ll hear beautiful music coming from any places of your house. With warm light filled with your rooms, the AudioBulb is certainly the best thing related to the word “romantic”.

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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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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...]

KAWS has recently launched a limited edition of 1000 sets of bulbs, all of which feature a “XX” pattern. Each set contains three bulbs in various colors, including red, purple and green. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It also has another name “Tag-it!” The idea behind the memopad is quite simple but interesting: for days a bulb that emits beams of light has become the dominant image for gleams of inspirations, and therefore such a memo pad was created for you to write down your best ideas. But apart from the bulb shape, the “Tag-it!” actually has a real soft light that you can switch on by pulling the label on side, to enlight the place where you can take a note. So even you come up with a nice ideas during the dreams, you can still manage to write it down with “Tag-it!” and that sounds really practical. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Designed by Estelle Sauvage, a graduate from Ecole Nationale supérieure d’Art et de Design de Saint-Etienne, the new kettle can heat water to 90°C using a light bulb. But of course the bulb is not directly placed into the water! Mounted on a wooden base, the incandescent bulb is actually separated from water by the recess of the glass jug for safety. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Who would resist the luxury diamond light? Its delicate design, luxury sculpt and perfect cutting have made the light the most elegant one in the world. But it’s not that expensive, as the bulb can be yours for only 29Euro. Well, that’s much cheaper than a real diamond, right? [Read the rest of this entry...]

Well, I have to say, the bulb created by Pieke Bergmans is really too fat…Look, the crystal LED lamp has to rest its big belly on the table. Aha, really impressive. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Thanks to GE for coming up with the Energy Smart® LED bulb, we can save much more electrical energy in the future. Compared with ordinary bulbs, the new one can distribute light in all directions, but costing less energy. It consumes 9-W of energy, amounting to a 77% savings compared to 40-W incandescent. It is also said that the LED bulb can last up to 17 years, if you use it 4 hours per day. The GE will launch it sometime early 2011 at a price of $40 to $50. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Just look at the Wooden Bulb Lamp, it’s obviously another product meant for the most weird of your grocery lists. It features a complex ‘mask’ that is made out of laser cut wood with a burned edge. Apart from functioning as a ceiling lamp or floor lamp, the simple bulb would also spice up your stylish rooms. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Who said that bulbs could only be shaped like pears? The designers didn’t agree with that at all, and they have tried to bring us around to their views by releasing the innovative set of bulbs. Puppies, flowers and bubbles, anything they believed interesting has been adopted to create an ornamental bulb. No need of lampshades and such bulbs are great enough to dress up your room. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Please use the lights YOU NEED—Well, we’re required to save power energy from time to time, but how? I mean, we truly can control how often we use the lights, but we couldn’t decide how much energy we’re using since every bulb is designed to illuminate the whole room with certain light intensity. Except the ‘EcoBulb’ designed by Seokjae Rhee!!! It is an adjustable bulb that comes with six distinct sections, each of which could be remotely controlled to change their brightness and lighting directions. As a result, ‘EcoBulb’ will merely illuminate those needed parts of the room with required light. That’s really an amazingly clever idea to save energy and I love it! [Read the rest of this entry...]