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To be perfectly honest, I sort of feel bad for Mr. Switch. He has people constantly tweaking his nose into impossible angles and he’s forced to smile through it all. But we can see through his pain. Those down-turned eyebrows tell us all we need to know about Mr. Switch’s mental state. We half expect lines of grief to form on his plastic forehead.

Though this is great news if you happen to be the type that loves personifying their home. Every fixture must have a personality. Mr. Switch suffers through the pain of a broken nose “switch.” But he’d be caught dead before showing YOU his anguish. If you’re evil enough to put aside the feelings of an innocent light fixture, Mr. Switch would make a cute little addition to your decor.

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Reading at night. Since children, we’ve enjoyed this ritual of waiting for the lights to go out then grabbing a flashlight and a book to read. But what about us older people who don’t have to worry about getting caught being up late but instead would like to read in the dark. After all, it feels great to pass out after reading a chapter of a new novel.

Enter the Super Slim LED Page Light. For $25, you’ll never be left in the dark again. A transparent page with a built-in white LED will illuminate your book evenly without any shadowing. Perfect for traveling or reading in bed. Just don’t try using it with Playboy as it’s best to avoid gunking it up.

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Traffic lights are an annoying but needed accessory to our daily life. When I used to drive, I’d get incredibly irritated with those new traffic lights that don’t show you what color it is until the last possible second. Now Art Lebedev is hoping to switch things up with these colorful, LED-powered square traffic lights. While red, green and yellow lights will be familiar, the shape of them gives them a new look that most drivers would welcome in a heartbeat. Let’s see if Audi can detect these.

What about you? Would you like to see some new traffic lights on your street corner that resemble these?

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Mmmmm! Wouldn’t you just love a dollop on your cheesecake?

These festive lights have a real Seussian look to them and can apparently inflate in under 10 seconds. At $240, they’re quite expensive. Considering said lights are available from a French company, you better be multilingual and dedicated to your home if you want to order a few of these.

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When you’re in the market for a new chandelier to decorate your home, style is everything. Sometimes style is outweighed by design, which is the case with this water bottle chandelier designed by Michelle Brand. We’ve seen chandeliers made of all sorts of recycled junk. Ballpoint pens, CD cases and even milk crates can be used to make impressive-looking household decor and the creativity doesn’t stop there.

Artist Michelle Brand uses cut-off plastic bottle bases to shower interiors with light.  So not only is she resourcefully recycling plastic, she’s also making a bitchin’ light source for your living room.

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Found on Youtube, here’s a cool video of a guy who used 18 LEDs and an Arduino to fade the lights on a project case. The end result? A machine looking very similar to Knight Rider’s KITT. If you want to build your own, the creator, John Tokash, has included a HOWTO and Arduino code on his website. Get buildin’, Hoff!

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Looking for the hottest party of the year? Want to do your part and help save the planet WHILE dancing? Of course you do! Hit up the Sustainable Dance Club this weekend for $3 SoCo Limes ALL NIGHT. We’ll be re-charging our famous LED lighting system via a “rechargeable dance floor” of sorts. Futureshock will be on the decks all night and later on DJ Clue will throw down the FRESHEST OF BEATS.

SO COME ONE, COME ALL!!! THIS FRIDAY, JULY 4TH AT SUSTAINABLE DANCE CLUB. $20 COVER, REDUCED ADMISSION AFTER 1AM. 21+ ONLY

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My father still owns an 17-year-old desk lamp from IKEA that closely resembles the Hector Dome lamp from Graham & Green. The ‘Dome keeps your work area lit evenly with just the right amount of light. And it looks good while doing it too.

Critics would argue the basic look of this lamp but I call it classic. Used car salesman lingo aside, the Hector Dome lamp would be right at home in Peter Keating’s office. At $205, it’s certainly priced appropriately.

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Mario fans will most likely go apeshit over this lamp. It’s a fantastic, smoothed out replica of the mushroom power-up from Super Mario Bros. that doubles as a lamp. But it’s not just any lamp. It’s an Ambiance Lamp.

That’s right. Experience the ambiance this lamp has to offer whilst you drink Absinthe and listen to chiptunes in your beautiful Parisian setting. Call on your servant to deliver the finest magic mushrooms available in your countryside so that this lamp will deliver unto you it’s golden light. All for $40. Not a shabby deal.

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Accidentally tangling your wires into a knotted mess really sucks. Doing the same thing in a organized, purposeful fashion, can be pretty damn gorgeous. Take a look at these light installations from designer Kwangho Lee. Lee has mastered the art of tangled wires in the form of lighting fixtures.

The original concept was to strip your average everyday lamp down to it’s bare hardware. Over a two-year span, the project evolved into creating tangled wire sculptures for adding a deranged angle of lighting to a room. Attempting to untangle this mess is not recommended.

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