Backyard lighting is as much about decoration as it is about safety, allowing you to enjoy your artificial oasis at night without the risk of accidentally stepping on a hidden rake. But why run lights to every corner of your yard when you can just mount a decorative Japanese lantern to a quadruped and simply have it follow you around all night?
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Let’s be honest with ourselves here for a moment. If you’re heading to Ikea to furnish your home, you probably don’t live in a sprawling million dollar mansion. Instead, you’re probably furnishing a tiny dorm room or a cozy apartment. And not only is Ikea aware of this, it’s also taken it to heart with a tiny billboard that still manages to maximize ad space with three different messages.
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The most I can harvest from my lampshades is a thick layer of dust, so I am simultaneously impressed and completely grossed out by these MYX fixtures made from mycelium. They’re grown into form, and edible mushrooms can actually be reaped from the top before they’re hung in place.
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Despite the advent of machines designed specifically for drying clothes, the lowly clothespin has still found a way to stay relevant and useful to us after all these years. And with the addition of a simple LED bulb, it looks like clothespins will remain useful for many years to come.
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The next time you’re passing through Newark airport, look up and smile. The airport’s new super-efficient LED light fixtures are also embedded with cameras and sensors—and they’re part of a growing market for surveillance technology that is built into other, everyday systems.
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Philips has its own plans for location-based services in stores and entertainment venues, eschewing low-power Bluetooth by instead using LED lighting that can communicate with a smartphone app and guide … Continue reading
For many of us it will still be a few months before dinner parties on the back patio are feasible again—but there’s no reason you can’t start preparing now. A winter of heavy drinking has probably left you with a mountain of empty wine bottles that can now easily be repurposed as stylish lamps with these $15 LED corks.
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When it comes to clothes, you get to put on a new outfit every day. But when it comes to decor, you’re stuck with the same designs for years. But with this clever LED Page Turner Lamp, which is built into a coiled notebook, you can mix things up from day to day and even draw your own custom designs.
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A headlamp can keep your hands free while you’re out exploring in the night, but sometimes you really have to angle your head to get the beam exactly where you want it. So Snow Peak came up with its new Mola headlamp that features an automatically tilting LED, which better matches the angle of your eyes, rather than the angle of your head.
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Bulky incandescents are pretty rare in desktop lamps these days, and it’s interesting to see how lighting designers are taking advantage of smaller bulbs—reducing lamps down to their absolute bare minimum. Take Jella, a super slim aluminum stick that’s embedded with both LEDs and magnets, so you can reconfigure it any which way you want on the steel stand.
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