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Ever miss the blue sky and white clouds when you’re actually working within your offices? Well for all nature lovers here is the Dynamic Luminous Ceiling Sky. It is composed of regular LCD TVs and LEDs, to simulating the natural cloudy sky and light conditions as accurately as possible. The ceiling consists of 19.6 x 19.6 inch square tiles that each holds 288 LEDs, and 11.8 inches below these lights there’s a diffuser film to create homogenous lighting that illuminates the room throughout.

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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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Now Sam Buxton’s Luminous Anatomy Lounger proves cloning could be really simple. As you come closer to the chair, it will interact with you-its electroluminescent display lights up, with its every detail clear to the user. But when you leave it, the chair’s light then gets dim and finally disappears. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Unless you have a system worked out, you’re obviously familiar with the idea of “checking carefully” when handing out the currency notes in a dim light place. Designer Jaesik Heo, Hojoon Lim and Dahaeng Lim want to save you the trouble with Luminous Paper Money, which emits a soft light in the dark, reducing your risk of handing out wrong notes. [Read the rest of this entry...]

What could present your love better than your heart and roses? In combination of thousands of mesmerizing roses, the heart-shaped pillow is definitely the best gift for Valentine’s Day. The gadget is powered by AA rechargeable batteries, which will be automatically recharged by the built-in battery charger when wore out. Commissioned especially for Valentine’s Day, only 50 pieces (35 pieces in pink and 15 pieces in Ivory) are available and you are recommended to pre-order for it if you love the idea a lot. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Though balloons cannot do much for you, they at least can ensure you a free chatting time with your friends by amusing the annoying kids. Just give your kids a balloon, they will feel satisfied and have a good time with it. And next time going out for a walk in the night, you can easily amuse your kids by giving them a ‘Light-up Balloon’, an innovative kind of balloon that illuminates in the dark. Available in yellow, red, blue, green, white and other colors, each of the ‘Light-up Balloons’ could be blown up to an amazingly big size with a diameter up to 27 cm and keep that size for 15 hours. [Read the rest of this entry...]

What have you done to accomplish your dreams of slam-dunking? You kept playing basketball day and night? Then you must need the Glow-in-the-dark Basketball Net, something especially designed for an overnight use. Powered by the sunlight it absorbs and stores during the daytime, the net could illuminate for about 8 hours.

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What have you done to accomplish your dreams of slam-dunking? You kept playing basketball day and night? Then you must need the Glow-in-the-dark Basketball Net, something especially designed for an overnight use. Powered by the sunlight it absorbs and stores during the daytime, the net could illuminate for about 8 hours. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Based on the Electro Luminescent Phosphor printing technology, designers have stepped further on the way to create decorative lights. And the Glowing Wings is a luminescent butterfly light that gives out blue light on the wall. Elegant, beautiful and eye-pleasing, the ‘Glowing Wings’ is also an energy efficient light that won’t add much to your electricity bills.

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The biggest problem a person will face with when he/she gets up in the dark night and looks for his/her glasses or slippers is that he/she couldn’t easily find them without the help of light. But if you turn on the interior light, you may bother others in the room. So to help you out of that dilemma, four young designers have teamed up with the ‘Day & Night Marks’ that allow you to find items easily in the dark.

Made from luminous materials, ‘Day & Night Marks’ absorb light energy during the daytime and produce light in the night so that the users could follow the light to find their slippers, spectacles, or cups. Simple but fantastic concept! [Read the rest of this entry...]

With this Luminous Instant Paster, you can say goodbye to those ugly note posters. Using the word ‘paster’ to take the place of the more often-use word ‘poster’, the designer Se Xin just wanted to emphasize the light’s outstanding feature that it could be easily pasted anywhere on the wall rather than merely on the paper. With numerous LED lights working at the same time, Luminous Instant Paster can give out an attractive but soft light in the night so that you wouldn’t forget your dates any more.

Luminous Instant Paster will always attract your eyes, especially in the nights. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Whenever asked what road humps are designed for, we will refer to its important functions in reducing traffic accidents by requiring the drivers to slow down. But how do they work in the night? I mean, there’s only dim light on the road and the drivers couldn’t always notice the road humps from far away, and as a result these speed breakers won’t work that effective as we’ve expected.

Fortunately some designers have thought of that question earlier and they’ve teamed up with the ‘Self-powered Safe Hump’ which is equipped with LED bulbs and therefore gives off light in the dark. Moreover, all the energy needed by the system is converted from the mechanical energy generated when the car passes by. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Glowing Weighing Chair, style of copy desk lamp, odd appearance can become an eye-catching scene in your room. It is made of Corian and is endowed with a sensor. As a result, the stool not only looks like a table lamp, but also works in a same way. How? Well, the sensor will turn on the lighting if somebody sits on the stool while turn the light off the moment you leave it. Isn’t that magic? I love the idea! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Let there be no misunderstanding, so I would like to make a clarification first that these tea bags are not ordinary tea bags for making tea but actually an interesting sort of lamps. It still has something in common with traditional tea bags, that is, it won’t work unless you put it into a cup filled with water. Romantic? I think so, and maybe next time you drop into a restaurant, you will find they’re using these Glowing Tea Bags to take the place of candles.

Video after the jump.

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Designer by the name of Yichun Chuang poetically brings out the relationship between the stones and the road. Appearing in the Seoul Green Project, the so-called ‘Luna Piedra’ (which means moonstone in Spanish) has drawn much attention, as they look extraordinarily beautiful, giving out soft and splendid light in the night. Moreover, equipped with a tiny nano generator, these OLED stones also generate power by water currents, without heating up the water or resulting any pollution. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Missed your childhood again? So did Ben Wilson and that’s why he has invented the Artikcar, seemingly the same as a child’s wooden toy car. Far more than that, Ben Wilson also adopted an innovative technology to illuminate the pedal-powered vehicle. So if you’re living near to Ben Wilson, you’ll see a glowing circle moving on the road, especially brilliant in the dark! [Read the rest of this entry...]