Lighting

The ouTask lantern has been designed for after-dark adventurers who need more flexibility than a regular head torch, flashlight or overhead lantern can offer – and features a telescoping light pole, built-in tripod and omnidirectional light head.

When you pull your car up on a quiet street at night, do you park under a street light thinking it will dissuade a thief from breaking into your car? New research challenges that assumption, finding rates of vehicle theft drop when street lights are off.

UK-based Adaptalux hit Kickstarter in 2015 with a modular lighting system aimed at macro photographers that featured bendy LED arms. Xenon flash arms for the system followed a while later, and now the newly redesigned flash arms are available to buy.

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.