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Our friend Lotte Van Laatum has just launched these cool lights that incorporate a bespoke CFL bulb design. The best production low energy light design we’ve seen so far.

These bangles made from old lens parts are really interesting and available at Oyemodern.
via notcot.org

Like with our Plumen designs, Pieke Bergmans imagines bulbs as art objects, but this time, instead of taking the CFL route, Pieke places an LED cluster in the hand blown, sculptural forms. Read more at Dezeen

We like these simple, stylish, retro(ish) portable speakers from Bird-Electron.
Available here

“This object plays on the common led-display digital clock with physical segments that slowly transition in and out of the surface”
Alvin Aronson’s site
thanks nicky

Technology is often at its best when it’s invisible. That’s why we’re so keen on these solar roof tiles that can be laid in by any tiler to fit neatly into any standard pitched roof. Here’s a UK company offering them and an old story we spotted on the BBC about a guy generating so [...]

Light Drop by Rafael Morgan (thanks Malthe)

Hulger isn’t into arms in general but we found these strangely attractive. Antonio Riello explains of his Ladies Weapons:

“In 1998 I decided to focus my artistic research mainly about a “fashion-fiction” visual story regarding an old passion of mine: weapons - objects full of symbolic senses. I want to mix, in an artistic way, traditional [...]

Whilst we’re generally unimpressed by people copying the Hulger idea, occasionally we spot things we like. Here’s one from Bmeres that installs Bluetooth tech into an old Russian handset, one with a mouthpiece that seems to have inspired lord Vadar’s mask design.

We like the Wenge Series by Jason Linde.