How the heck can this picture be a real photo without any Photoshop?

How the heck can this picture be a real photo without any Photoshop?

You’re not looking at a digital painting or a photo that’s been manipulated with Photoshop or some sort of hyper real painting here, you’re looking at a real photograph taken with a real camera. No Photoshopping at all. Hard to believe, right?

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This Disco Ball Floor Lamp Is A Classy Take On A Kitschy Icon

This Disco Ball Floor Lamp Is A Classy Take On A Kitschy Icon

Attention all sophisticated super freaks: this one’s for you. Say hello to the Disco Dish, a flashy light fixture from the off-kilter creative mind of Dutch designer Bertjan Pot.

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Remote Control Sneaker Lights Blind Your Friends With Awesomeness

Remote Control Sneaker Lights Blind Your Friends With Awesomeness

These days, a set of velcro straps across the top of your kicks just isn’t enough to impress your sneaker freak friends. To guarantee you’re the envy of everyone on your block, forget about dropping hundreds on the latest pair of Nikes—instead, strap a pair of these Light Kicks LED strips to your feet.

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Plumen’s Beautiful New Bulbs Make Low-Energy Into High Art

Plumen's Beautiful New Bulbs Make Low-Energy Into High Art

A bulb is a bulb is a bulb. Wait, no, not—not when it looks like this it isn’t. These energy-efficient bulbs make low power consumption a form of high art.

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The Luci Inflatable Solar Lantern Gets a Colorful Follow-Up

The Luci Inflatable Solar Lantern Gets a Colorful Follow-Up

What was originally conceived as a cheap rechargeable LED light for parts of the world where the power grid wasn’t reliable, turned out to be a huge hit with consumers all over the world after it was unveiled at CES last year. So this year MPOWERD is introducing a slightly more extravagant model of its inflatable lantern called the Luci Aura that features color-changing LED lights and a new frosted plastic giving it a softer glow.

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This Interactive Chandelier Shines With Data From All Over the World

This Interactive Chandelier Shines With Data From All Over the World

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) recently opened the doors of a brand new HQ in Washington DC. But it might be tough for visitors to tear themselves away from the foyer, which is home to the Global Data Chandelier—a pixelated fixture composed of 425 LED pendants arranged in the shape of a world map that glows in time with different data sets.

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The Voice-Activated House of Locks, Patterns, and Networks

The Voice-Activated House of Locks, Patterns, and Networks

The networked home is something of an emerging zeitgeist, offering today’s consumers a domestic dreamworld in which every object in your house can be remotely controlled, synced together, and activated according to preset patterns, from heating systems and coffee makers to alarms and personalized lighting.

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Just Flipping This Wireless Switch Is Enough to Power It

Just Flipping This Wireless Switch Is Enough to Power It

You might think that the humble light switch is so simple that it couldn’t really evolve much further—but you’d be wrong. Because this wireless switch, designed to work with the new breed of wireless bulbs, can harvest all the energy it needs to function from a button press.

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LightingScience Bluetooth bulbs claim to conquer jetlag; ease early starts

Remote control lights like Philips hue may allow you to change the color of your environment, but LightingScience claims its bulbs actually improve the quality of it. A Bluetooth-enabled downlighter, … Continue reading

Huli color-changing lamp hands-on

We’ve a soft spot for color-changing lighting here at SlashGear, not to mention minimalistic design, and the Huli lamp on show at CES 2014 fits the bill on both fronts. … Continue reading