Lamp
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The latest LED lamp takes a different approach by removing a critical component. The Lumir C is designed without any external power supply, operating off of a single candle instead.
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The Bluetooth-enabled, origami-inspired Orilamp is designed to unfold and provide up to seven hours of LED light from a single charge.
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The Mstick is a curious little device. It doesn't immediately appear to fall easily into any category and yet has multiple useful functions. It seems conspicuously unusual and yet strangely compelling. It's just an LED light stick. But it's also a timer, an alarm and a weather forecast display.
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The Bulbing Lamps from Studio Cheha in Israel use a combination of LEDs and laser-etched acrylic sheets to create 3D lamps from 2D materials. Thus, these lamps create light (and a guaranteed conversation starter) from nothing but an optical illusion.
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While cheap, kerosene lamps are bad for the environment and human health. Intended as an alternative in areas with access to electricity, the SALt (Sustainable Alternative Lighting) lamp burns for eight hours at a time running on only a glass of water and two teaspoons of salt.
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In exceptional circumstances, the camera flash on a typical smartphone is bright enough to double up as a flashlight. With the addition of Travelamp, your smartphone can use this bright light as an impromptu bedside lamp or nightlight.
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Brick Lamp is a minimalist lamp shaped like a brick. More than that, it's designed to reconnect us with the act of flooding our homes with light, with the simple act of picking it up switching it on and off.
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While OLED technology is increasingly being applied to things like TVs, it can also serve as an efficient form of lighting. Canada's OTI Lumionics has developed its own cost-effective OLED lighting system, and incorporated it into the $239 aerelight. We recently got to try one out.
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The need to minimize the energy we use need not necessarily impact adversely on the form or function of a device. This premise is elegantly demonstrated by Ambio, a "bacterial lamp" created by designer Teresa van Dongen. Ambio merges sleek design with a soft glow created by bioluminescence.
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Cloud, by New Zealand-based designer Richard Clarkson, is an interactive lamp designed to mimic a thundercloud. It brings the outside inside, providing an audiovisual show that looks and sounds like thunder and lightning ... but thankfully rain isn't included in the package.
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UK-based Green Spirit Creations is the latest team to try its hand at paper-based lighting solutions. Seeking out discarded materials from local shop-owners, its stylish household lamps are made from 100 percent recycled cardboard (bulbs, wiring and switches aside).
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There's an old camping trick, for people who don't want to bother getting a lantern: just stick a flashlight up against the bottom of a plastic pop bottle, turn the flashlight on, then bask in the bottle's glow. Now you can do the same sort of thing with wine bottles, using suckUK's bottlelight.
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