Drink a lot of beer in the bottles and have too much recycling every week?

Don’t worry, you can turn your empty beer bottles into powerful solar-powered LED beer lanterns that will light up your house at night for free.

Al Gore and company have helped us to see that our planet is in peril. Lend a hand, make a toast, and help illuminate ways for saving Earth — all at the same time! It’s easy to do your part: recycle, refill, and recharge. Just take your fave beverage bottle (keep the cap), drop in a flexible solar panel, a step-up switching regulator circuit, a rechargeable battery pack, and a powerful LED, cap it, and you’ll have a self-sufficient garden lantern that is ideal for shedding some light on solving environmental issues. You will have to choose your bottle carefully, though. Clear glass rules. Also, wide-mouth bottles are easier to convert than narrow opening long-neckers. Like your grandfather who built ships in discarded bottles, put a modern spin on bottle building while being conscientious of your world. Cheers!

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For one, I know Philips was working on color-changing LEDs and lightbulbs that are easy to install while providing high power.

On top of that, they introduced Ambilight TVs where the background lights would match with what you see on TV.

Lastly but not least, I did hear of CitizenM hotels in Amsterdam, supposed to be all design and damn great.

It seems that Philips is partnering up with bunch of design hotels to showcase their new products.

I think this is a great way for the company to get exposure and also great for the design hotels to get the latest technology straight from Philips.  (Yes, sometimes we are not bitter. )

Great stuff, ain’t it? (or great marketing?)

In a partnership that could take hotel guests’ experience to a whole new holistic level, Philips and luxury hotel brand Fairmont have teamed up for the Asia Pacific region’s first Ambient Experience Concept Suite at Fairmont Singapore. As part of Philips’ “Hotel of the Future” initiative, regional media on Friday were given a glimpse of what the concept could look like when finalized.

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LED RGB Lightbulb with Remote Control!

Here’s a cool LED RGB Lightbulb that comes with a remote control.  The best part is that it’s even got flash, strobe, fade, and smooth mode for ultimate party light control.

LED color changing light bulb with wireless remote for use in any standard incandescent socket. Have a sign currently illuminated with boring white light? Own a bar or restaurant and want to really make your decorations stand out? Well here is the answer, the RGB (red, green, blue) colored LED lighting bulb. Can be used in a single static (fixed) color or simply press the remote control to produce one of four color changing effects. The CVSCL-8101 is capable of emitting White, Red, Green, Blue, plus twelve additional bright colors. In addition to the brilliant colors you can produce with this light bulb, you have the added benefit of reducing your energy costs since the CVSCL-8101 only uses 3 watts of energy. Great for retrofitting into existing track lights or downlights, make your interior decorations and space shine with this one of a kind LED color changing RGB light bulb brought to you by Chinavasion Electronics.

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Seamour Sheep Radioactive USB Lamp!

Believe it or not, counting sheeps at night works to help you go to sleep.  (Of course,  there’s always “greener” way to help you sleep too if you know what I mean.)

Check out these Seamour Sheep Radioactive USB LED Lamp that looks, quite frankly, really cute.

You can get one for $69 over at rotofugi.com.  These would make great gifts for anyone including yourself, do you have extra $69 to shell out of your pocket today?

Seamour makes a triumphant return with this “Radioactive” edition. Green LED’s and a USB cable make Seamour glow bright green when he’s on his feet…but tip him over and he goes to sleep and the light goes out. Great functional design! USB cable and removable googles included!

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Skeleton Disco Ball!

Skeleton Disco Ball might not work as well as your conventional symmetrical disco ball but does have its merits as it does look kinda like it belongs in a horror house, not a club.

For the best in-home rave Halloween party next month, we suggest to give the Skeleton Disco Ball a try and tell us how many chics you pick up.  (guys for girls)

Death to disco! The perfect light effect for your Halloween party. This skull shaped disco ball spins from its own motor, so set up and use is simple. Mirrored mosaic glass tiles cover the 8 inch skull, and it also has red light up LED eyes for an added scare. Motor requires 1 D battery and 3 AA batteries, not included.

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DIY - How to Build a Traffic Cone Lamp!

Traffic Cone Lamp seems like a such a great idea for making traffic cones safer in general by contractors and alike who use them on a daily basis.

In case you want to just make a Traffic Cone Lamp for your garage, here’s how to do it.

Cones are available on eBay for cheap, but the shipping can be a bit much. Orphan cones are a dime a dozen in cities, but often too dirty and messed up to use. Please don’t steal them from active job sites, because they are safety equipment for someone. Other good places to check are auto salvage yards and the county/municipal dump, because that’s where the local government takes their bulk waste.

My cone is 28″ tall and 14-3/4″ square at the base, and weighed about eight pounds before the lamp parts were added. They come in all different sizes, and you could even make a desktop one out a of a little tiny cone. I used a 75-watt equivalent compact fluorescent. A brighter fixture could eliminate the need for the holes. Do not use conventional bulbs; they get hot enough to damage/burn/melt the cone if there’s nowhere for the heat to escape.

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Heat Resistant Lego Lamp!

Check out this neat lamp you can rearrange to fit your home design with special heat-treated lego blocks.

The block light is an amazing light that lets you change its appearance to anything you like. The limitation is only that of your imagination, so it’s a perfect item for anyone that considers themselves a bit arty. For example, our main picture depicts, ‘the struggle of an ancient pyramid builder and his battle with verigo through the medium of lego’!

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With NES popularity soaring with weird stuff that people come up with, here’s another cool NES Duck Hunt Lamp, complete with a customized hunting dog lamp cover, NES infrared gun, and the original Duck Hunt NES cartridge.

So one day I picked up an NES Zapper (gun) and went “woah, that would make a cool lamp!” So… after playing around…

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More cool NES Stuff at Zedomax:

NES Controller Cake

NES in a cartridge

NES Harmonica

NES Speakers

If you need a really cool insect-like lamp, you will have to get this $2,600 Nymph Lamp.  Of course, you’d probably be a rich-snob to afford this one.

Body made of a two-part fiberglass mold- white lacquer finish. Light covers made of Corian. Legs 5/8” hollow steel tubes each curve is unique to its location- white powder coat finish.

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