Lighting

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.

If you worked in a dingy, windowless environment, it would be nice (and energy-efficient) if you could get natural daylight "piped in" from outside. An experimental device does exactly that, in a new compact and robust form.

To make content creation, online meetings or virtual family visits less of a chore, Movo has squeezed a HD or 4K camera into the same unit as a quality microphone and light ring and launched a production bid on Kickstarter.

Nite Ize presents a new hanging camp light alternative with its Radiant Rechargeable ShineLine. Using fiber optic construction, the ShineLine delivers a sharp, colorful streak of light at the campsite and beyond.

Off-grid light creator Deciwatt is back with a new manually powered light to illuminate spaces from remote villages to campsites. The NowLight includes a linkable multi-lamp design and single power source charged by hand, solar or mains power.

Last month, Ikea and teenage engineering launched the Frekvens collection of lighting and speaker modules. Now teenage engineering has added a bunch of CAD files to the mix so that owners can print off some nifty hacks.

Never one to approach the design of regular household items without plenty of pizzazz, Dyson has introduced a new lamp called the Lightcycle Morph with the ability to assume a range of positions and give off different kinds of light.

More than two years ago, Ikea announced a collaboration with Sweden's teenage engineering to develop a range of lighting and speaker modules. The limited edition Frekvens collection will now go on sale from February.

The UK's Adaptalux has added flexible Xenon flash arms to its macro photography lighting arsenal, together with an IR emitter to trigger them.

The UK's Matthew Perks has been running a YouTube channel for about five years, where he walks viewers through the ins and outs of making their own gadgets. For his latest project, he's rescued some broken televisions and computer monitors and turned them into artificial daylight panel lighting.

Electronic devices are made possible thanks to rare-Earth metals, but these are rare and relatively expensive. Now, scientists have found a way to combine common elements into electronically-useful compounds, which could find their way into tunable lighting and solar panels.

​Though most of make use of radio waves to wirelessly transfer data to and from our work mobile devices and computers, there is another way. Signify has just launched a new lighting range called Trulifi that leverages light waves to send and receive wireless data throughout the workplace.​