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Earth DIY - How to Make a Solar 55-watt Plastic Bottle Lamp!

by max on April 25th, 2009
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Here’s a great way to utilize a plastic bottle, water, and film to bring natural light to your home/office without using ANY electricity. This method basically uses film and water to disperse the sun light into indoors. It will only work indoors but still a great way to save energy, especially each of these so-called lamps produce about 55-watts of power, more than your regula ...

Eye Lamps!

by max on March 20th, 2009
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Here’s a cool Eye Lamp that will open up as it sees human presence. (or animals too for that matter) I do like it but it’s still a design, here’s a bunch more eye lamps you can buy though: Eye Plasma Lamp is a good one for your livingroom, get bunch of these and turn all the lights off, that will be creepy! Hella Eye Truck Lamp is great for brightening up your vehicl ...

Dirt-Powered Soil Lamp!

by max on March 17th, 2009
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We’ve seen a slew of solar-powered lamps in the last couple years but this is the very first time “dirt”, (yes, the stuff that’s on your ground) has been used to power a lamp. We wonder how long this will go, specifically when it will be available to the consumers. The soil lamp uses the chemical reaction between copper, zinc, and slightly moistened mud to crea ...

For coffee lovers who can’t get enough

by David Allen on February 24th, 2009
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This is the sort of lighting that would expect to find in a coffee shop, but you too could have this lighting fixture in your home, maybe in the kitchen or dining room wherever you think it would look cool. The lamps are produced from some inverted coffee cups that have been fixed to a nice piece of dark wood. Priced at $199 Source [Nerd Approved] .gallery { ...

Interesting Bedroom DIY/Gadgets Roundup

by max on January 29th, 2009
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Here’s a roundup of interesting gadgets from the Sleep Revolution blog: Learn how to make your walls a mirror-copy of Mario Brothers the video game. Talking thermostats might be a great idea, especially if you are like me and sometimes lose your glasses. If you can’t help yourself from hearing the phone while you sleep, I suggest you to try one of these ring amplifiers that ...

The bookmark lamp

by David Allen on January 8th, 2009
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These lamps make sure that you can read and manage to keep the page in your favourite book too, it is the simpler things in life in which normally stand out as being a great idea and there is no doubt that this is a good idea. This may be an ordinary lamp, but with just a little of thought this lamp has become something that is useful, because it holds the page in your book, it also kee ...

The lamp that looks like an accident

by David Allen on December 19th, 2008
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It is not every day that you come across a product that makes you think OMG! However, this one has to be one of those that almost close enough to tip you over the edge. They are designed and produced in Japan, where else! Nevertheless, even though these lamps look slightly scary they are at the same time cool, because there is no need to have them in red, there are plenty of other colour ...

DIY Hydroponocs - How to Make your own Hydroponics system!

by max on September 26th, 2008
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Here’s a cool DIY hydroponics system you can make for growing all types of your favorite plants indoors. This is a great way to keep your plants constantly filled with nutrients, now don’t burn your house down with lamps that are too powerful. The air pump has become a staple component in most systems for various reasons. Moving water with air makes complete sense to me whil ...

Custom Eye Lamp Just for you!

by max on July 28th, 2008
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Check out these glass-blown eye lamps you can order that are exact clones of your actual eyes. The hand blown glass eyeball lamps made by Glassblower Livio Serena in Murano are based on exact clones of your actual eye color. Order them through 5.5 Designers. via shinyshiny - ifitshipitshere ...

Furniture from Factory Waste!

by max on July 21st, 2008
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Here’s a great way to exemplify how factory waste should be converted into artistic furniture. Wood waste and off-cuts were collected from factories in Denmark, this collection is made entirely out of the factory waste collected. The pieces were put together to form a wood patchwork before they were made into; a chair, a book box and a series of 12 lamps. via boingboing ...