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String Lamp

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Distinctive and interactive, this lamp from Co.Design is completely different from regular pedant lamps, as it comes with no switch, but instead features a string that lets you turn on/off or change the emitting light via a simple motion of pulling.

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Light Bubble

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Turn on a bulb, to display the interesting process of a bubble getting bigger and then disappearing… Really cool lamp designs from Italy!

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Tokio Lighting Unit

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Surrounded by dull concrete every day, people nowadays are always looking for something special, bright, smart or weird to give their common life a sparkling shine of light. Fortunately, the lighting unit designed by Asobi deserves our attention: made from lightweight carbon fiber, the lights can be ordered in 4, 6, and 12 LED configurations that spread out in all directions just like a spider’s web. It’s nothing to do with elegance or entertainment, but the light itself is really unique in pattern and function.

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“Daddy Long Legs” Lamp

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Daddy Long Legs in the famous novel is obviously different from this table lamp put forward by Produkt of Design, but they all feature really long legs that impress us quite much. The lamp here, which is both adjustable and functional, can change its legs into various shapes, either providing a unique appearance or serving as a simple bookshelf.

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Transformable Tube Chandelier

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Chemistry and art are two separate words that seemingly would never have any connections, but designer Pani Jurek’s “Maria S.C. Lamp” has now brought them together. Looking like a crystal chandelier, the lamp is actually made from chemistry test tubes placed into circular plywood bands. It seems completely nice when without anything in the tubes, but the result becomes more amazing when each tube is filled with colored liquid or inserted with flowers.

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Solar Pills

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Ever felt that you’re in lack of sunshine? If so, you may have a try of Sunset Laboratories’s Solar Pills. Obviously they’re not suitable for oral use, but instead substitutes to nightlights or other kind of lamps. Whenever you need some light, “take” some pills and you can then feel reenergized, will you? Available in a wide range of solar radiation, Borabora, the Maldives, Haiti and the Bahamas, these pills should not replace natural exposure.

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Flaca Lamp

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Flaca, which is Spanish for skinny, is an ultra-thin foldable lamp completely laser-cut from a piece of stainless steel. It’s easy to assemble in just five steps, requiring no other tools but only your bare hands. The lamp is adjustable too, offering various heights to meet your different needs.

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Beautifully Hollowed Lamps

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While human’s love for light resulted in the invention of bulbs and lamps, Calabarte’s love for beautiful light art has brought us these amazing lamps made out of hollowed and dried skin of the gourd fruit. They seem bit of ordinary when not turned on, but really fabulous (exactly, beyond the words) as the light comes out of them. Sold? We don’t know but we all hope it is launched to the market so that we could get the best gift for the Christmas.

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Shadow Art Floor Lamp

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Instead of leaving shadow on the floor, these unique lamps from designers Dennis Thies and Michael Rösing have left their shadows on the wall, thus to create some fantastic art in your own home!

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Alphabet Furniture

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Use as you read, these Alphabet Furniture sets all come with several individual modules but can combine to create a chair, a lamp and a table as well, just as the words you’ve already seen.  So what do you think? Isn’t it funny to surprise your guests with the Alphabet Furniture?

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Bacteria Lamp

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How are we going to live the future? According to Philips, in the next few years we should be using wall-mounted vats of bioluminescent bacteria as night light. That sounds bit of weird? Not exactly. Good news is that you don’t need to pay for the electricity bills any more, but instead you have to feed the bacteria with some household waste (which has been digested by other bacteria to form methane gas) so that the bacteria will provide soft green light at night.

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“Lights Up” Floor Lamp

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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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Super Mario Inspired Products

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“Super Mario”, not only as a classic game, but also as daily products like hats, cups or toys, has deeply influenced its fans for generations. Here we’d like to share some creative products inspired by Super Mario games and hopefully you’ll get some fun with them as that you get from the game. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Closet Lamp

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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...]

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Skull Chandelier

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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...]

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Touch Lamp Vase

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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...]

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Crystallized Sugar LED Lamp

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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...]

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LZF Lamps

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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...]

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Looksoflat Lamp

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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...]

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Modular Lights

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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...]

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LED Ropes

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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...]

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Piano Lamp

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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...]

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Balloon Lights

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Each of the Balloon Lights designed by Uli Budde for Veritgo Bird is composed of a built-in LED, giving out soft and warm light when in use. But what makes them really charming is the balloon shape, and that endows these lights with a cute look. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Ember Lamp Power Strip

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Ember is the best bedside lamp you can ever find. It offers electricity, not only to charge the built-in lamp for illuminating your desk, but also to charge your cameras, PCs, cellphones and other personal items. Plus, all cords can be conveniently organized with the unique body design so that you would always keep your desk neat. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Bon-Home Culinary Heat Lamp

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Although there’re many types of food heating devices on the market, the Bon-Home Culinary Heat Lamp still gains an advantageous position as it utilizes ceramic element heating technology that keeps your food’s moisture and flavor. Ideal for busy families and office workers, and also perfect for parties since the lamp comes with multiple links. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Tea Bag Lamp

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Hi, I’m a tea bag, but bit of different from conventional ones you’ve ever met. Because I can illuminate your night! My body is made from recyclable materials and I’m endowed with the ability to absorb the sunlight during the daytime. So with me, you’ll save much energy and money, doesn’t that sound great? Just get me home and I’ll be a good companion to you. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Arduino Lamp

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A Czech-based student, using Arduino programming, creates this innovative lamp that would automatically run into dark space and illuminate it. It features an “S” shape, consisting of wheels, lights and several other parts. It is also endowed with “life”, which means that the lamp will be nodding its head when giving out light. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Floor Lamps That Wear Clothes.

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The love for beauty is a nature not only of all human beings but also of some lamps. With delicate dresses and coats on, these floor lamps seem really cool on the paper and we bet they’ll certainly give your rooms a refreshing look. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Portable ‘e12′ Table Lamp

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Yes, there’re too many lamps on the market and each of them has a unique feature, so how could one designer make his/her lamp special enough to attract the consumers? Helene Steiner chose to build a camera on the lamp, enabling the users to take images of documents whenever they feel like to. It works in the same way as an ordinary tripod and can easily fold up for portability.

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Cat Lamps

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The table lamps could be as cute as little cats, and keeping that in mind, Kuntzel + Deygas has designed the collection of Micha Lamps that each comes in a different pose like sitting and walking. With such a cute cat-like lamp on my table, I’ll just frequently think of my grandma’s little cat that used to jump onto the table when I was doing my homework and what will you think of then? Leave your comments and let me know. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Book Lamp

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Usually we call one lamp a “book lamp” simply because it is designed to ensure you a reading time in the night, but now we call this lamp created by Zheyan Hong a “Book Lamp” also because it is shaped like a book. Comprising of 18 layers that go towards the inner structure, the lamp also features two magnets that help you control its light and shape conveniently. So just get the “Book” for your books! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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World Globe Lamps

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There’re many ways to show your care for the earth and the world we’re now living in and Benoit Vieubled has made a stylish lamp of discarded world globes to express the will to build a green world. Dubbed “World Inside Out”, the artistic chandelier comes with different formations, and they all look wonderful in your rooms. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Hang Book Lamp

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Time again daily life proves to be an important resource of inspirations and Daniel Baek come up with the idea of creating a unique lamp that can support the weight of a book when the German student read books in bed. Named as Hang Book, the new lamp not only offers enough light to ensure you a comfortable reading, but would hold your book in the air when you fall asleep. So whenever you’d like to read in bed, you can always easily find the book. Nice work! [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Omlet Lamp

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Well, let us see in what shapes the decorative lamps are usually made before we start the topic today. So here are puppy lamps, grass lamps, cloud lamps, fruit lamps, balloon lamps and also egg lamps, right? And to offer you one more choice of egg lamps, we’d like to introduce the Omlet Lamp designed by Tembolat Gugkaev: the egg cracks and the lamp lights up your room. In other words, the Omlet is a lamp that indicates your humorous attitude toward life. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Pouring Light Lamp

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Thanks to Korean designer Yeongwoo Kim, we can now have a unique experience of pouring light out of a tea cup. Inspired by moving water, the Pouring Light Lamp comes with a cup part and a water part, and the latter is filled with phosphorescence to create an amazing flow of light. So how do you like the lamp? [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Celebrity Lamp

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Guess what, your lamp can also become a star when equipped with up to 40 pairs of mirrored aviator glasses! Resembling most celebrities who are used to wearing large sunglasses, the cool Celebrity Lamp not only has an outstanding appearance but features an amusing temple light switch, changing the colors of the lenses when switched on or off. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Roly-Poly Light

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Seemingly the designer Jung Jae Yup prefers items with a bounce-back-up feature too… Dubbed “Roly-Poly”, the stainless steel lamp would never fall onto the ground but keep shaking its head back and forth to make you laugh everyday. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Transformable Lamp That Modulates Light Intensity.

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Soft and semi-transparent, the lamp designed by Martin Bahrij can give quite warm light in the night to create you a peaceful atmosphere. And it is also designed with the ability to modulate light intensity: it can be used as a night light when closed but offer large amount of light when its bottom is open. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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MIA Electric Flashlight Lamp

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With the technology and design placing towards energy-saving and multiuse, Jia Dai makes the flashlight a new one in the league. The flashlight not only can split open to work as a ceiling lamp, and more importantly, its solar cells can still recharge when in the open lamp status. So whenever you use the MIA Electric Flashlight Lamp, you’re always saving both the energy and your money. Sounds like a good deal. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Collapsible Solar Powered Lamp

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Here’s a new solar powered lamp created by Jesper Jonsson that features a collapsible design for easy transportation and storage. When you unfold and expand its shade via a twisting motion, the smart light then can use the solar powered collected during the daytime to light up your dark night. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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