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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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Undoubtedly wearing light on hand is much better than holding light in hand: it not only offers bright luminescent light just as common light tools do, but also allows you to spare your hand to do something else. Easy to wear and convenient to use, the H9 Portable Lighting unit by Luisa Baldassari is both an ordinary glove and portable flashlight as well, offering two different choices that serve you. Except for daily use, you can even wear the H9 to a party to amaze your friends.

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Exercise to power, the ‘Citylight’ Concept is an innovative design that attaches exercise equipment to streetlights and thus utilizes the kinetic energy people create to energize LED lamps in the light system.

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The world’s first cloud-based LED lighting system was recently launched by Japan-based Net LED Technology Company. It’s called NetLED system, composed of LED tube with built-in Wi-Fi as well as a free NetLed app. After installing the NetLed app on your smartphone, tablets or other devices and replaced your lights with the NetLED tubes, you can then control individual, multiple, or a set of lights via the app: to dim the lights (each tube has 10 different dimming levels), to turn them on or off, or to track energy usage in real-time. Net LED says that when a company, for instance, installs 200 of these lights, its power consumption can be reduced down by up to 50%.

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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...]

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...]

Urchin Softlight, just as its name implies, is a soft and stylish light that be transformed into different shapes. It can even be folded into booklet when not in use. Made of white textile that has 5-15% recycled content, the lamp is recyclable and thus leaves fewer footprints to the environment. It also uses LED lighting sources and hence your electricity consumption will be reduced. So whatever you may need—an eco light, a stylish light, a changeable light or a low-energy-consumption light, the Urchin Softlight always seems to be your best choice. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Incense sticks are widely used in the east, and countries like China, Korea and Japan all have a tradition of burning incense to worship the God or ancestors. But the incense here is not made for burning, but for lighting. Charged by a base station, the “Scent” lights can be placed individually or collectively, to offer you soft warm light in the night. [Read the rest of this entry...]

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...]

What would happen when you tap the drum? You’ll hear pleasant music, right? Or possibly you’ll see a light turns on. Designed for music enthusiasts, the Drum Light aims to delight the user with light rather than music. So every time you tap the drum, the light will turn on and with another tap, it then turns off. But you needn’t worry that the Drum Light will be activated by other sound, because the light also comes with a sensitivity control to manage the noises. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Also known as “Geometric Romance”, the lamp from Tommaso Gecchelin aims to bring you back to the romantic summer nights when the fireflies were flying around you. Yaps, romance. That’s the most important point you may find with the lamp, and another feature the device has is high tech. It is filled with electronic fluid that is moved by a pump, and powered by a wireless system located in the base. Moreover, you can touch the lamp to change the color of the light! [Read the rest of this entry...]

You think I might be mistaken, right? Because the trees do not need any decorative leaves at all, they have an inborn ability to grow leaves. But for the dark nights when trees seem to be leafless, they may need these ‘etree’ lighting design by Coen Hoogstraten. These decorative leaves are made from electroluminescent materials, which will produce light when connected to electric current. The wires that power the leaves are strengthened, enabling the users to bend them into different shapes.

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Do look carefully and closely, because even your own eyes are deceiving you. It is not an ordinary poster merely used for decorating your room. Actually, it is an exquisite Flat Light Poster, something that makes installing a wall-mounted lamp much easier than ever before. Put forward by Finn Magee as an exciting concept in 2007, the Flat Light Poster has just now been produced in a limited run of 50 lamps, priced at $195 each. [Read the rest of this entry...]

If you’ve just returned from the Word Join Center, you must still remember the “Light Form”, a modular lighting system inspired by the origami art. It consists of wood panels that can be folded up to expose the energy-efficient electroluminescent lights embedded in them. Encased in rich dark European maple, the “Light Form” can be easily fixed onto any wall, endowing a unique kind of warmth and romance to your home. [Read the rest of this entry...]

With this magnetic OLED wallpaper, you can say goodbye to the ugly light bulbs. Not only featuring a nicer look, the OLED lighting is also more energy-efficient, 2.5 times more than compact fluorescent bulbs. In other words, the OLED wallpaper is about as powerful as other lighting devices, but requiring merely 3 to 5 Volts to power the OLED film. But the most exciting new may be that you won’t wait for too long to use these wallpaper to decorate your room, coz they’ll hit the market in just two years. [Read the rest of this entry...]

No doubt the development of technology has greatly changed our life, and we wouldn’t agree with that more after we’ve seen the continuous improvement of LED films. Dubbed LightForm, the world’s first flexible LED lighting film measure 254mm long and 12.7mm wide, with an average thickness of less than 1mm. Moreover, it could be easily cut into various shapes, according to your different needs—attaching them onto your car or even sew them onto your clothes. Available in red, amber, green and blue colors, the LED film is priced from $ 26.95 (no battery included) to $29.95 (a battery included). [Read the rest of this entry...]

I give you a box of eggs, wishing it to brighten your day…

Thanks to Igor Pinigin, we now have one more way to ‘eat’ the eggs! Just for kidding, and do remember they;re inedible. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The ‘Drop Light’  is all about changing the light intensity in an interesting and simple way. Each bulb, containing a new advance LED, could be separated from the main body easily. Integrated with a base, these bulbs could also serve as a free standing lamp individually. All the lighting modules are charged via an electric line located within the main body. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Designed by Jordi Canudas, Less Lamp is quite unique: firstly, what you buy home is actually a sealed lampshade; secondly, no light will be released until you crack it with a specially designed hammer. [Read the rest of this entry...]

I cannot think of a rational reason why I love these squeezable LED lights, but I just know clearly I do. Diana Lin’s d°light Bubbles are silicone LED lights that give out a ‘whoo’ sound when you squeeze them. Apart from decorating your stylish room, these lights also seem like a better way for you to spend a tiresome evening. Just squeeze, squeeze and squeeze! [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...]

Jar Lamp is the design of Noon Studio. Nothing is particular about the table lamp when not turned on. But the creative lamp will spice up any living room after you open the lid to switch it on.

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From Lifegoods Design, the dubbed ‘at-at walker’ is a wooden drawer with a built-in light dimmer. It appears to be absolutely nothing particular when the drawer is in ‘off’ mode. But the moment you pull out the drawer, bright light will then come out of that and illuminate your room. Claimed by Lifegoods Design, “The lamp is like a science fiction object but characterized by the warmth and the preciousness of the woodwork.”

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Martin Neuhaus has just come up with ‘Becherlicht’ , a floor lamp that also doubles as a wall ornament. Different from other lamps, ‘Becherlicht’ features a bulb outside of the lampshade, and therefore creates a three-dimensional shadow onto the wall when turned on. Just as you can see from the pictures, it is the colorful shadows of the lampshade that makes the wall look beautiful. Another simple but impressive product. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Hey, watch out! That soap is not for washing your hands, but for decorating your rooms. It is a portable Soap Light, coming with a charger base disguised as a soap dish. The creative home furnishing also features a touch interface, which allows you to switch the light on/off by touching the soap and change its brightness by rubbing the bar.

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When you’re furnishing a home, light is the most concerned issue—neither too bright nor to dark, what you actually need is a dimmer switch lamp, a handy electrical component that lets you adjust the light levels so that you always feel comfortable. In this article, we’ll show you a new lamp that is shaped like a Chinese Scroll Painting. As it turns out, this lamp works in a totally unexpected way: it goes brighter when you pull its bottom down and turns darker as you roll it up. Well, possibly you will find the lamp more interesting and impressive if you paint something on it. Just imagine that.

There’re seldom lamps drawing all the people, but I bet your lamp has that potential if you’re using the ‘Eclipse Light’ by Ronen Kadushin. It is a simple lamp made from a single flat piece of steel, which reflects light when turned on. And the best part about it is that the lamp allows you to create various light effects by bending it into different shapes. Next time you entertaining your friends, you should proudly show them the amazing lamp. [Read the rest of this entry...]

We’ve seen a lot of funny lamp concepts, but the Cosmonaut Lamp may be the least elegant one. It’s a lamp with a bulb on its head and looks like an astronaut ready to land on space. The wildest part about the lamp is that it uses fewer wires but mainly polymer clay instead. And inspired by the Cosmonaut Lamp, the designers may come up with more clay lamps that are shaped like a puppy, an E.T. or something else. [Read the rest of this entry...]

What is the best time for bookworms? It must be those cozy nights spent with their favorite books, in the company of their favorite lamps. So nothing could be better than the Shelf Light if you’re planning to send a bookworm a special gift, because they can read books whenever they’re sitting before the table lamp. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Who will leave those ugly spiral-shaped energy-saving lamps directly in the air since they have had a hard time designing and fixing their houses? At least I won’t. But after you see the Pigtail Lamp showed here, you may change that opinion and would love to get some home. The designer tactfully associated the ESL’s spiral shape with the pigtail, and finally came up with these lovely lamps. It’s really attractive.

The only association between light and switch is that we use the switch to turn on/off the light. That’s totally right but Sungi Kim also believes that the switch itself could doubles a light. And that’s the main concept behind the innovative design ‘Push on the light’. It looks just like a simple switch for most of the time, but it will then work as a light when you push on the short end of it. Amazing! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Never rains but the umbrellas are always needed inside your room. They’re lamps. Designed by Marie-louise Gustafsson, the umbrella-shaped lamps are quite different from ordinary table or floor lamps, and you can either hang them in the air or set them on the floor. Bulb included. [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...]

What will you do with your discarded laptops? Of course there’re numerous answers, and most people prefer to throw them away or give them to others. Pity that you haven’t noticed even the old laptops could still continue to serve you. An Apple fancier from German, for example, has rebuilt his old iBook into an attractive lighting as you can see from the pictures. Tough seemingly quite simple, that’s still so impressive a design! [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.

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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...]

Rice is a basic foodstuff for hundreds of millions people all around the world, especially the Asians. And during the dinning time, you’ll always find them hold a bowl of rice in their hands. For the Asians, a bowl of rice is not merely foodstuff to keep them alive but also a symbol of fulfillment that encourages them to work harder and harder.

Possibly inspired by that, Lo, Yu-Fen has designed the ‘Harvest’ light for Yii Collection. Shaped like a porcelain bowl with delicate patterns on its surface and tiny bits of light inside it, the decorative light is surely to bring a great change to your home. If possible, I’d like to get some home. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Though I New Idea has introduced a collection of cool lamps already, the so-called ‘Icon’ lamp is definitely a lighting that will swipe all those away. At the first glance, you even couldn’t figure out where the light comes from since both the two halves of lamp don’t serve as a usual lamp at all. Curious about that? Buy it home and check out its secret then. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It is a light that is shaped like a flower. More than that, its shape also changes as the light around it varies, just as those real flowers do. From dawn to night, the light will show you a complete process of how life starts and ends. [Read the rest of this entry...]

You need a lantern not merely because you want it to light up the dark room, but also because you would find some fun with it. An interesting, beautiful, but also practical product has been something that every designer hopes to attain, and certainly Charles Jones is amongst them. And he succeeded. The Kutch Lantern is a lighting device which could be turned on when you squeeze its body (which is squeezable of course) or spin the rotary dial at its base, and that’s totally different from other lanterns on the market. How do you like it? Let me know then. [Read the rest of this entry...]