The lightsaber umbrellas we featured yesterday will help you out when it’s raining outside, but these new lightsaber lamps can slice through a gloomy day with beams of light. You can even add 100-watt red or blue bulbs to complete the effect.
These lamps are currently available for pre-order with shipping slated for April. However, through December 13th you can use our exclusive coupon code “2011NA5″ to save $5 on your order of $50 or more. Use the code “2011NA10″ to save $10 on your order or $90 or more. It’s good for anything sold at EntertainmentEarth—including those awesome umbrellas.
Product Page: Darth Vader / Skywalker ($64.99)
In his ultra-unique At-Attack lamp, Etsy seller Zygmunt Jarzembowski depicts a gaggle of superheros descending from an AT-AT, including Batman, Wolverine, Theoden King of Rohan, Lara Croft, Frodo Baggins, Matrix Trinity, The Thing, Mr Fantastic, Spiderman, and Conan the Barbarian—with the action being directed by J. Jonah Jameson.
The item has sold on Etsy, but the product page states that commissions are available.
Product Page: (£960, or about $1,540 via Neatorama)
Clapping to turn the lights off is so 1990s. These days it’s much cooler to just shoot your lamp instead. The Bang! Lamp doesn’t have a switch, it has to be killed. It comes with a matching gun and for extra fun, the lampshade tips to the side like it’s actually been shot. Who needs to go to the firing range when you can have target practice in your living room?
Product Page (¥8500 or $111 via Incredible Things)
If you are a space junkie with some coding, circuitry and soldering skills, you can build your very own ISS Notify lamp. It glows whenever the space station is passing over your location.
From the project page:
The International Space Station (ISS) is a marvel of current technology and humanity. Sadly, we often forget it’s there.
This light sits on a desk and lights up when the space station passes overhead. It stays lit as long as the station is more than 10 degrees above the horizon.
Being reminded that there are astronauts doing science over our heads every day helps reconnect us with our space program.
Indeed, it is important to remember that brave men and women risk their lives every day in the name of science and exploration. It’s also good to have an ISS warning system…just in case. You never know what conspiracies NASA is cooking up to bring you down. I’m on to you ISS astronauts! Where is my tinfoil hat?
Check out a video of the lamp in action after the break.
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Awesome, but the burning flesh and the glass shards make it uncomfortable to wear.
(via Dorkly)
This Toy Lamp sculpture from Ryan McElhinney is kind of like one of those sculptures of Dante’s Inferno with figures writhing in a mass of agony. Except this must be a circle of Hell reserved exclusively for nerds.
(Ryan McElhinney via GadgetSin)
Sonic gets Super when you collect seven Chaos Emeralds, and this 15-inch Sonic figure from First 4 becomes a super lamp when you click on the lights in the base (alternates between flashing and continuous).
Limited to only 350 pieces. Pre-Order for Q1 of 2011.
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Not supposed to be watching TV? There’s ways around that. Take this TV Flash Lamp, which will conceal your LCD mistress in the lampshade of a fully functional light. Whenever the coast is clear, you can lock the doors, slide the lampshade down, and bask in the glow of glorious digital entertainment. The next thing you know, you’ll be laughing your ass off watching people hurt themselves on Spike.
(via Coolest Gadgets)
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The wait has finally ended for Finn Magee’s Flat Light Poster, which is now available in a very limited quantity of 50 pieces. According to Finn, the design came about after borrowing an Anglepoise task light back in 2007. After noticing that the lamp provided an atmosphere of productivity and efficiency to the room, he decided to see if an image of the light could provide the same effect.
The Flat Light has been exhibited at the Royal College of Art Summer show in 2007 and as part of Designers in Residence at the Design Museum, London. The printed poster utilizes an LED for illumination and measures 16.5″ x 23.5″.
Product Page: ($195 via BLTD)
First there was the giant Atari joystick lamp, now there’s the Atari system and cartridge lamp made from a dead VCS (Video Computer System), 10 cartridges and a lampshade that features game box art. Hopefully its creator will hook us up with step by step instructions for a DIY project in the near future.
Click Here For Video of The Lamp in Action
