These Edison Lamps might harness modern LED technology, but they also capture the look of the era from which the lightbulb came. What a nice balance. Read More >>

Got £16.50, a desperate desire to re-use garbage, and questionable taste? With Satechi's new Touch USB LED lamp you can transform an empty soda bottle, wine bottle, even a water bottle into a warm desktop companion free of pesky switches. Read More >>

The Delta Lamp lets you recapture the fun of rubber band balls from your days in school, without landing you in detention. Plus, it's an outlet for all your creative energy. Read More >>

It's taken a while for the humble LED to gain a foothold in the broader consumer market—blame artisanal culture or simple force of habit, people love their cream-colored incandescent bulbs. But as the New York Times devoted 1600 words to explaining yesterday, more and more designers are jumping on the LED bandwagon. Case in point: the CMYK Bulb by the Dutch lighting designer Dennis Parren. Read More >>

Lamps can be pretty, but there are few quite as versatile as Konstantin's Grcic's OK Lamp. Both a ceiling fixture, but also kind of a floor lamp, its rotating LED panel can cover almost any possible angle. And it's form is the marriage of new tech with decades-old design. Read More >>

In Greek mythology, Ariadne is known as the mistress of labyrinths. She's also associated with weaving and in some traditions, she hanged herself. This jointed lamp -- Baldessari's Arianna — was inspired the goddess. Read More >>

A floor lamp isn't typically a place you'd expect to find a lot of personality, but this one showcased at the Milan furniture fair has plenty of it. You'd half expect to see it prancing around on screen before a Pixar movie. Read More >>

You usually don't expect a lamp to do much more than provide a little illumination and snazz up a room. But maybe it's time you should. Monica Armani's Silenzio lamps are made with sound-absorbing foam and fabrics so they chase away the dark and the decibels. Read More >>

Is this some kind of robotic arm? Or a miniature skyscraper? Actually, no, it's just a humble table lamp—but its design allows it to assume all kinds of amazing, striking forms. Read More >>

When you move the shade on the Ascent lamp, you control the intensity of the light. Sure, that'll confuse your friends when they try to flip it off. But that might even make us like it even more. [Daniel Rybakken via MocoLoco] Read More >>

Capitalizing on the whole 'rising sun' theme, Japanese designer Satoshi Itasaka created his Sun Rising Lamp that recreates our nearest star as it slowly rises up from behind a mountain. Illuminated by an LED inside the sphere, the lamp is just eight inches wide but will set you back almost £920. Expensive, for sure, but when else will you ever have the opportunity to own your own personal sun? [Japan Trend Shop] Read More >>

This lamp looks like it's come straight outta the offices of Google. But in fact it was created by the famous Italian designer Alessandro Mendini — and we think it's beautiful. Read More >>

Designed to look like a massive construction site digger, this imposing thirteen foot tall lamp will tower over your desk, and everything else in your office. Designed by Pascal Howe, The Worker has a definite industrial charm to it, particularly if you grew up staring in awe at the massive yellow machinery that's used to build towering skyscrapers. Read More >>

Great news for anyone who's ever dreamed of their boring desk lamp coming to life as their lovable sidekick. Inspired by the animated Luxo lamp that greets moviegoers at the start of every Pixar film, Adam Ben-Dror, Shanshan Zhou, and Joss Doggett created the Pinokio lamp which moves and reacts to its environment with what appears to be genuine emotions. Read More >>

This lamps looks good enough to eat. No, really: it's made from a biodegradable plastic derived from vegetable glycerin and agar, which means that when it reaches the end of its natural life you can actually chow down on it. Read More >>