All posts tagged: Lamps

Gantri’s 3D-Printed Lamps Are Going Wireless

Gantri’s 3D-Printed Lamps Are Going Wireless

Published by skeptic

Gantri, a San Francisco-based company known for making soft, stylized 3D-printed lamps, is going wireless. That’s thanks to a new partnership with the design firm Ammunition. Gantri 3D-prints its lamps using plastics made from corn-based polylactic acid (PLA) in its Bay Area facilities. The result is a collection of carefully designed light fixtures with gentle curves that aim to make luxury-style lighting feel somewhat affordable. (Prices range from $200 to $500.) Last year, the company introduced a program called Gantri Made, which allows shoppers to customize their lights and gives third-party designers the ability to build their own designs using Gantri’s foundational pieces. Courtesy of Gantri Gantri first partnered with Ammunition in 2020, developing a line of stylish lamps aiming to highlight what premium light pieces could look like. You’ve almost certainly seen something built with Ammunition’s flair. The firm designed Beats by Dre headphones, the Square point-of-sale tablets you see in shops everywhere, and many other projects, from robot coffee machines to Jay-Z’s failed weed vape cartridges. This Gantri new collab is a range …

Glowing algae could power the lamps of the future

Glowing algae could power the lamps of the future

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Bioluminescence is everywhere in nature, but it puts on its biggest light shows underwater. In the deepest regions of the oceans, as much as 90 percent of all living creatures may possess at least some ability to shimmer thanks to cellular chemical reactions. However, the ethereal displays aren’t limited to these deep, dark waters. The cold blue glow from bioluminescent algae like Pyrocystis lunula is occasionally visible atop waves for other organisms to see. Still, spotting these glimmers is difficult for the naked eye. P. lunula only shines for a few milliseconds at a time when agitated. However, those lights could hypothetically remain illuminated for much longer if certain chemical switches are flipped on in the algae. The possibilities would be vast—suddenly, harmless organisms could replace environmentally toxic chemicals used to produce artificial glows, and even cut back on electricity usage for lights. “This project was a moonshot idea,” University of Colorado Boulder civil engineer Wil Srubar said in …

Save Big on One of Our Favorite Desk Lamps from Lume Cube

Save Big on One of Our Favorite Desk Lamps from Lume Cube

Published by skeptic

Tired of sitting in a dark office while you work from home? You could save over $40 on one of our favorite LED desk lamps, the Lume Cube Edge Light 2.0. This upgraded LED light can do duty as both a work light for a study, or as a main light for improving your webcam quality on work calls. It could even be part of a lighting suite for a proper streaming setup. Lume Cube LED Edge Desk Light 2.0 The Edge Light doesn’t just sit there and shine; it has touch controls that let you easily adjust the brightness or color temperature. It has a wide temperature range from 2700K all the way up to 7500K, so you can use this lamp to stay focused during the day and for some light reading in the evening. It’s also big and bright, with a rotating head that can fill out a space and brighten up your face for a big presentation, or just for catching up with friends on a video chat. While we liked …

The best sunrise alarm clocks and SAD lamps to help you wake up after the clocks go back

The best sunrise alarm clocks and SAD lamps to help you wake up after the clocks go back

Published by Sam Flores

Reviewed by Simon Lewis The Lumie Bodyclock Shine 300 is a slightly more basic version of the Luxe 750DAB Lumie alarm clock (reviewed above). It doesn’t have many of the snazzier features, but the lower price will make it a better choice for many. It took me a while to choose all the settings I wanted (I don’t need a seven-day alarm, for example). I enjoyed choosing from the 15 different sounds, however, which included birds, waves, rain, frogs, crickets, purring kittens and, more surprisingly, goats, steam trains, café and ping pong. Some of these are annoying at full volume, but as they gradually fade in they do a good job of waking you up. Others offer a gentler, more bucolic way to rise. They also work well when going to sleep. You can choose for the fade to take between 15 and 90 minutes. A white noise setting is useful, since it masks outside noise as well as relaxing you (or so many find). On the negative side, the sound quality when you choose …