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Yes, yes, my house is very charming, with bright white walls, good-colored floors, well-designed furniture, and Rooftop Ceiling Lights!! Though the ceilings used to be easily ignored by people, they will never act that way anymore, after Hamburg and Berlin based company Lightboys have brought us with these delicately-designed ceiling lights. They’re clever combinations of large format photographs and common ceiling lights, each featuring a classical domed roof to add some romance to your houses.

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Although LED technology has already been widely used in our daily life, there’re still some LED related products we seldom know or use, and one on that list is rightly the LED Light Strips. It is thin and waterproof, ideal for both indoors and outdoors use, capable of serving as night lights or decorative lights. According to your needs, you may cut the strips into various sizes as well.

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Yes, here comes the dark night, but the sun has never gone away: actually the sunshine is turned into warm and beautiful light, to decorate your room and to brighten up your night.

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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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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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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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Work smarter, not merely harder. FLEXiT is an ultra-flexible light that can be wrapped around tubes, bent into tight corners or magnetically fastened onto metal objects to serve as different types of lights: table light, camping light, work light, directional light and so on. Except for it adjustable shapes, the FLEXiT’s light functions can be changed too, offering low, medium and high light according to your various needs.

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What will the next-generation fluorescent lights be like? “D’Light” from H_Design can offer us a possible answer. Made of heat resistant tempered silicone material and LEDs, the D’Light is expandable and durable, saves both your efforts to install the light tube and your money spent on electricity bills. It can fit into different sizes of lights too, and all you need to do is to hook it to one end and expand the length to the other side. Easy and practical as that!

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The cold winter makes you suffer but you don’t know why? Well, according to scientific researches, the reason that people feel lack of energy in winter is because they lack enough bright white daylight. So in order to help people get fully energized in winter, the SEQINETIC “sun” glasses are created, offering bright light to beat the winter blues. But will that really work? Let those who have tried the glasses to tell us the answer then.

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Cleverly combining light and shadow together, the giant OLED mirror collaborated by rAndom International and Chris O’Shea would feel the human’s movement and thus to interact in the term of either light or mirrors. Stand still, and the panels act like mirrors, but when you’re on the move, the OLED pixels then light up. The other interacting type is totally different, as wherever you go would become mirrors with the left parts still act as light. It’s very magical, and now the You Fade to Light has been produced in a limited edition of just eight units, each is selling for €140,000. So if you don’t think it’s exciting enough to watch them in the video, you may consider getting home one such piece.

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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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Magical Blow On/Off Light Switch is something especially perfect for lazy people like me. It can attach to any electrical appliances and then lets you to switch on or off them via an easy control of the device. That means, if you sleep with a Light Switch besides your pillow, you can conveniently turn on the light when you need to get up in the midnight… Cool, I love the idea.

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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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A light signal isn’t functional enough to help you communicate with other drivers? Well, possibly the LED Light Display can. It is composed of mesh grid with about 600 LEDs, which are controlled by an ATmega AT89C51 microcontroller and play the messages you’ve already stored in the system. That means, when driving on the road, you can inform those behind you to back off, go ahead or do other things you may want with words displayed by the LED light. See what? The communication between drivers would become easier and clearer now.

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...]