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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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A Standing Desk for the Rest of Us… the Lean Desk

By on June 24, 2015 in furniture, general geekery, kickstarter

leandesk1You’ve read the articles, seen the tweets and heard the news on talk radio – sitting is the new smoking. Bloodclots, organ damage, spine degeneration – sitting all day is as bad for you… but those stand up desks aren’t for you. They really aren’t for a lot of people. They sound great in concept – but can you really code all day in the stand-up position? Really?

Kentucky designer, Wayne Yeager, has come up with a compromise – the Lean Desk. Unlike sitting, it gets you up on your feet, but unlike standing, it takes 25% of your body’s weight off your feet.

Yeager has been cranking these out by hand and has launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring these into mass production. Compared to the commercial standing desks out there, the price is more than reasonable and the product is simply more practical. Standing desks are hard on your back and when you hurt, you lose your ability to be productive. Coders and geeks around the world, rejoice! The lean desk is here and people seem to love it (check out the video below).

The Lean Chair has already met double its funding goal on Kickstarter, but still has a few early bird options left to grab. The campaign ends in a little over two weeks.

You can follow the designer on Facebook, Twitter and on his website.

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