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Techno-geek LED Base Lamp Turns Your Geekery Into Light

By on June 25, 2015 in blinking lights, furniture, general geekery, kickstarter, more nerd than geek, refined wood

baselamp1New York designer, Luke Kelly, digs lamps. He makes all kinds – but he’s crafted a special kind of lamp that fuses everyone’s need for light with a geeks need to have refined wood, heat sinks and LEDs that can dim – all in the same package.

Kelly calls his new creation Base Lamp and he’s launched a Kickstarter to get it into your hands. He demonstrates in the campaign’s video that you can use almost anything to be a lamp – but I think it’s far more than that. It is like museum lighting for your coolest keepsakes or mementos that you wish to display. Backers have the option to get a base in bamboo or American walnut. The lamps are manufactured in the USA.

You can follow this project on Facebook, Twitter and on the designer’s website.

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Practical Design for Light-up Keychain Helps Geeks with Poor Night Vision

By on June 22, 2015 in blinking lights, gadgets, general geekery, kickstarter

keylight2Geeks around the world have keys – keys to the house, to the office, to the lab (which might be just your man or lady cave – a closet, pillow fort or TuffShed) and we have issues at night with these things. We stare at flickering screens all day long. Our eyes are tired and as we age (especially the ladies), we can’t see squat at night. I’ve had mini mag lights and all kinds of things to light up my keys. I can’t always use my iPhone light because I’m carrying other stuff with one hand and fiddling with keys in the others. It’s never practical to try to aim a flash light at your keyhole while also trying to use the key – especially if you only have one hand free.

The designers Sanyo Tzeng and Julien Egger at Synthesis Labs have come up with a solution – a keyring in which the entire ring lights up – and brightly… Enter BEAM. Beam: The Luminous Keychain, is now on Kickstarter. You can follow Synthesis Labs on their website.

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