This stunning lamp is called Troja Arc, a product by the German design duo hanzandfranz. Just slide the lit part and get your very own arc of light.
There’s no word on availability or price (but it won the German Design Report special mention award 2007), so let’s assume it’s either extremely expensive or only exists in a few examples.
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Here’s David Quan’s Time Table, a 58 cm tall metal table with a 38 cm wide 3-hand clock under the glass top.
Umbra.com: Time Table (€162.50, about $223 US)
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This is Pear Light, a hollow steel tree acting as a lamp base with three hanging urethane pears. Each pear is connected with a magnet and contains 10 ultrabright LED lights and a charging unit, allowing you to pick the pears from the three and they’ll stay lit for over an hour. Design by Nick Foley.
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Sony just announced VPL-VW200 and VPL-VW60, their two new 24p True Cinema 1080p SXRD Bravia projectors. The VW-200 sports a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tesar lens and a 120fps frame rate, the VW60 is gifted with improved brightness of 1,000lm.
“The VPL-VW200 and VPL-VW60 models feature newly designed SXRD panels with wire grid polarizers and high contrast plates that more than double the previous native contrast ratio. When combined with Sony’s Advanced Iris technology, the panels help to deliver a stunning 35,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio.”
The VW-200 will be launched in October for about $15,000 (ouch) and the cheaper VW-60 will set you back about $5,000 when its launched in September.
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Oh yeah, Samsung continues to prove that just about everything looks better with a glossy, piano black finish. The ML-1630 is now the world’s slimmest monochrome laser printer (only 11 cm thick) and the multifunctional SCX-4500 looks just as good, although larger. Both models feature a blue LED scan progress indicator and buttonless, soft-touch sensors.
Inhabit Builtby Lamps are available in a variety of refreshing colors and patterns. How about an Even Steven in walnut and orange, Road Dog in green and rosewood, Mack Daddy in blue and wenge or a Chump Change in green and blue?
DesignPublic.com: Inhabit Builtby Lamps ($170 - $232)
Want to leave AM/FM to the old folks and go Internet radio all the way? The wood-encased Tangent Quattro has support for local WiFi LAN audio streaming along with over 5,500 Internet radio stations. Other features include an alarm clock and five radio station presets.
Available in white, red, walnut and black.
Amazon: Tangent Quattro WiFi Internet Radio ($349.00)
Tangent-audio.com (Official site)
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Does the boss force you to work long, warm hours at the office while refusing to fix the air condition? No (ass) sweat! Here’s the incredible Self-Cooling Seat Cushion.
This thing is filled with some sort of natural mineral crystals, and while you sit on it they melt and produce a nice cooling sensation for your hiney. It’s all encased in a closed loop system, so when your work day is over you just put it to rest during the night and the minerals regenerate, over and over again (no refrigerator needed).
FirstStreetOnline: Self-Cooling Seat Cushion ($49.95)
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Ferruccio Laviani is the designer behind the Kartell Toobe Lamps made in acrylic glass. They’re available as both tall floor lamps and shorter table models, colorwise you get to pick between blue, green, red, orange and crystal (transparent).
Lumens: Toobe Floor Lamps ($606.00)
Lumens: Toobe Table Lamps ($275.00)
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Oh yeah, I could definitely picture one of Frank Cho’s limited edition Monkey Boy Figures standing 9" tall on my office desk. If you want one you’d better hurry up though, they’re limited to 600 pieces.
WizardUniverse: Frank Cho’s Monkey Boy Limited Edition ($69.99)
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