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Simple is an understatement when it comes to the Vinge, a fine piece of lamp from Swedish design firm Note Design Studio. Stripped down to its essentials, the fixture puts out a beautifully soft light as a result of its massive white dome. And if the quality of light weren’t enough for you, the wing around the base spins 180 degrees letting you fine tune the light output to the exact mood you prefer for the moment. More »

With the future of reading heading squarely in the direction of electronic devices, what to do with the old timey book form? Build a lamp, of course. During a recent visit to the City by the Bay, we popped into the TechShop hackerspace and were introduced to Max Gunawan, the designer behind Lumio (not to be confused with a certain smartphone line of similar name). The product, developed in that very space, offers up a cool take on the desktop lamp, fitting it into a wooden, old timey-looking book form. Open it up and the pages fan out into what looks like a paper lantern.

It’s an LED light powered by a lithium ion battery that’ll give you around eight hours on a charge. Due to the foldable nature of the Lumio, the device is portable and can be opened into a number of configurations, to suit your needs. Gunawan is a couple of days away from launching a Kickstarter page for the project, in hopes of getting together $60,000. Interested funders will be able to pick one up for around $95 — wait for it to come to market, and that price will jump to around $125 or $135.

After the break, check out a video of Gunawan giving us the lowdown on Lumio.

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Are you one of those who love to have nothing better to do than to curl up at home right after a long, hard day at the office, with a good book in hand? Of course, when it comes to the issue of lighting, it can be a very personal matter, and some folks prefer to have the entire home lit up as though it is Christmas the very next day, while others prefer far softer lighting for that warm touch, which helps soothe away the day’s stress. Well, if you are a voracious reader who loves to bury your nose in books, then the $99.99 Satechi Smart LED desk lamp does seem to be a decent choice for exploration.

The Satechi Smart LED desk lamp is readily available and is guaranteed to be the perfect lighting accessory for just about any home or office. Of course, it has a primary duty of functioning as a standard issue desk lamp so that you can sort through your documents as well as read a book in comfort, but it also has a secondary although very important feature in this day and age – that is, to be able to juice up a plethora of devices that support USB charging. Imagine coming home, plugging in your smartphone to the Satechi Smart LED desk lamp, and reading a good book while your handset gets all juiced up, ready for a day’s work tomorrow.

The Satechi Smart LED desk lamp is also considered to be very versatile, as it was specially designed to meet the lighting needs of business pros, students and busy moms. In order to make it easy to use for just about anyone and everyone, it comes with user friendly touch controls which allows you to toggle between a quartet of different brightness levels. The sleek and glossy lamp’s four different modes will be able to be more than sufficient in delivering the ideal amount of light so that you can dive right into a good book, or to ensure that you do not miss a single fact when studying for an upcoming test.

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So we have a smart home that is hooked up to the Internet, while there are also smart refrigerators as well as Smart TVs by different manufacturers which basically have one thing in common – they cannot live without the Internet, and I am starting to suspect that regular human beings, too, would find life less than ideal if they were to be deprived of their Internet connection. Well,the Good Night Lamp works in somewhat the same manner as it comes across as a series of Internet-connected lamps which will be controlled by a single, main lamp. Should the Big Lamp turn on or off, the rest of the Little Lamps will also follow in a corresponding manner.

Just what kind of practical use is this good for? Imagine you, being the king of your own castle, send all the other little ones to family and friends who stay far from you – at least when you turn off your lamp, it tells them that you, too, have retired to bed. A representation of the social network on a physical plane, perhaps, and this is a Kickstarter at best for now. If you pledge £89, you will end up with a Big Lamp and one Little Lamp, with the option to add more Little Lamps later on for approximately £15 to £20 a pop.

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Are you handy with tools? Well you could head to your workshop and make yourself a lamp, I suppose, or you could buy one that’s actually made out of a power tool.

These unusual lighting fixtures are made by Aaron Jarry of JEngineering using pneumatic nail guns mounted to an ebony-stained oak base, and come with an appropriately masculine black lampshade to top them off. Aaron cleverly conceals the power cord inside the air hose to complete the look.

I’m guessing that they no longer function for firing nails or staples, but it would be cool if that’s how you attached them to your table. You know – press the trigger and it nails itself in place. That’d be cool.

DIYers and Tool Timers can improve their home with one of these lamps over on JEngineering’s Etsy shop for $180 to $200 (USD).