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Combined with today’s massive flat panel displays, a nice surround sound system can provide an extremely immersive environment for watching movies or gaming. But a stumbling block many run into …read more Continue reading Lamps Double As Secret Surround Sound Speakers
Sometimes there are places in a home that could really use a ceiling or wall light, but that it isn’t worth hard-wiring one into. Well, that’s where the German-made, suction-mounted Neozoon lamp is designed to come in.Continue ReadingCategory: Around T… Continue reading Suction-cup-packin’ lamp sticks it to darkness
The audio cassette was the first music format that truly championed portability. It was robust, compact, and let people take music on the go to soundtrack their very lives. It …read more Continue reading Cassette Lamp Is A Throwback To The Pencil-Winding Glory Days
These days, home appliances are equally as likely to have soft buttons and rotary encoders as they are to have a simple old clunk/clunk power switch and an analog knob for controls. This is all well and good if the …read more
One of the easiest ways to get into hardware hacking is by piecing together a few modules and shoehorning them into a really cool home. For example, why buy a commercial moon lamp when you can spend 30+ hours printing …read more
Continue reading The Bright Side of the Moon Lamp: It’s Any Colour You Like
[Clive] had an interesting video about LED lights from Philips. You can’t buy them unless you live in Dubai. Apparently inspired by the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who wanted more efficient and longer-lasting bulbs. The …read more
Continue reading LEDs From Dubai: The Royal Lights You Can’t Buy
As far as light fittings go, store bought is fine, but it’s hard to beat something you’ve built yourself from the ground up. [Heliox] demonstrates this well, with a 3D-printed workshop lamp that looks the business and is functional, too.
The lamp has plenty of neat design touches that speak …read more
Continue reading 3D Printed Workshop Lamp Uses A Few Neat Tricks
We consider ourselves well-versed when it comes to the technical literature plastered on hardware store parts. Acronyms don’t frighten us, and our Google-fu is strong enough to overcome most mysteries. One bit of dark magic we didn’t understand was the gobbledygook on LED lamps. Wattage is easy and color temperature …read more
Many of us have been inspired by the videos of the Falcon 9 booster, tall as an office building, riding a pillar of flame down to a pinpoint landing at Kennedy Space Center or on one of SpaceX’s floating landing pads in the ocean. It’s not often that we get …read more
Continue reading Falcon 9 Lamp is Touching Down in the Living Room
If you think of levitating objects you probably think about magnets but this is not what [Aaron Hung] used to build his levitating LED lamp. To be fair, his lamp is not really levitating but merely generates the illusion through the principles of tensegrity. We have featured a number of …read more