FEATUREDRain Jackets refashioned into Reusable Bags ~ by the City Bag Trade ~ see the NASA one i picked up at Outside Lands! And there are even patterns to make your own... lightweight, with functional POCKETS!

Niagara Falls with beautiful lights! Amazing effect!

Great lighting collection, designed by Swedish graphic design Studio Dizel & Slate, produced by Bergo Belysning.

The frellstedt lightbench looks great both indoors and out and is available in just about every color in the rainbow.

Dutch fashion designers Viktor & Rolf have miniaturised their entire collection down to doll size .
This outfit comes complete with soundsystem & lighting rig - not suitable for size zeros.

Scheisse is a large pendant lamp shaped like a broken bulb that creates a distinct shadow and looks like a sculpture in its environment. By Hans Bleken Rud for Northern lighting. available for pre-order now.

Work by Pradyumna Kumar, the first Indian artist ever to win the Grand Prize at the 15th NOMA Concours for Picture Book Illustration, for his work ‘ How The Firefly Got its Light’ a series inspired by Mithila Painting of India.

Dress up your bare lightbulbs in colourful 'Bulbcaps'. Buy dozens and change them according to the mood.

Cool Noir style animated commercial for... of all things, a pest control company! Nice lighting and a good example of a simple idea executed well.

FEATUREDOxo Candela Flare lights ~ these little rechargable candle replacements are incredible ~ perfect for parties on the patio on late summer nights... see a full unboxing and review!

This lightbox art of Obama and the Chinese character for "Forward" is one of many pieces to be featured at the Manifest Hope Art Gallery during the Democratic National Convention.

The Not-a-Clock. "No, it doesn't respond to movement or interaction of any sort. Nor temperature fluctuations or soundwaves or rss feeds. It's simply a display for 35mm slides. It lights up."

The Lairesse pharmacy in Amsterdam has something more interesting than the green lighted interior.

Fireplays : stop-motion and spectacle of lights, on a soundtrack by Mgmt.

This interactive table, created by the Australian Lightwell company, is currently at display at the Australian Museum.

FEATUREDDid you know Oxo bought Candela? The awesome candle alternatives that are portable, cordless, and charge up on their base? Love the new designs!!!

A water line made by turning off lights won best concept in this year’s ID magazine annual design review.

Absolutely amazing lighting and parchment samples from the Precious Pieces collection.

Scrap Lights by Graypants are not only beautiful, they're sustainably made from twice recycled cardboard.

ChargerFrame transforms your electronic landscape into wall art. This active interplay between cables, gadgets and indicator lights is neatly framed and finished off by an energy-efficient master green switch.

View the Airbus A380 movie. The lighting and interior cabin design is excellent.

Official Lightsaber DS Styli ~ actual Star Wars and nintendo licensed products! $8 for 3!

The new LivingColors and LivingColors Mini by Philips will be released in september. It can lights up in about 16 billion colors with a nice remote control. Available in gold, silver, black and white.

Unreal beautiful works of the German photographers at Lightmark!

Tim Hunt has just graduated from Dunedin University and shows a bright future with his end of year Eclipse Lightshades.

FEATUREDLynn Lanterns from Williams Sonoma Home are a gorgeous use of porcelain and candles, i wonder what the lighting actually looks like at night!

Knight Rider themed Mio GPS! With the voices, lights, etc! (I'd love to have this voice instead of the horrid Dash one)

Recently Chaiten Volcano, southern Chile, erupted during storms in the middle of the night, creating this rare and colossal effect. The Chaiten Volcano has triggered earth tremors and spewed ash two miles into the air.

the zoom chandelier is exactly what it sounds like. the piece zooms in and out to fit the space and lighting needs of the room. the piece glows from the inside out. gorgeous!

Dynomighty's NEW redesigned Mighty Wallets™ on Vinyled.com. 100% Recyclable, Expandable, Strong, Lightweight and Thin! Made from a one single sheet of Tyvek (like FedEx envelopes).

Domestic Construction's "Ted Lights" are made from recycled teacups -- you can get 'em in singles or clusters

Modular lighting so you can place these "lightballs" anywhere around your space. Ingenious.

Tautra Monastery in Norway. Great lighting inside. By JSA.

The ‘Cloud’ Lamp shades are made with recycled paper, they can be flat packed, and sold with a milky white energy saving bulb. Cloud Lamp is a simple and sustainable approach to add magic and intimacy to domestic lighting.

The Marfa 10 x 10 Lightbox is a minimal dwelling retreat consisting of a mere 320 sq. ft. All it needs now is a stock water tank for a pool. Designed by Candid Rogers Architect.

At first glance, I thought these photographs by Desiree Dolron were oil paintings. Still, I'm amazed how she captured the soft lighting of old dutch masters.

From the inspired Brazilian collective TOUCH, the handcrafted work of Patricio Lix Klett and his La Feliz Collection.

Oakley gets into the iphone case game... just before the new iphone drops? its made from "Lightweight molded Unobtainium® rubber"

Shot from the end of the brilliantly-lighted Radiohead show in St. Louis, MO.

Norway has never been famous for their cars. TH!NK wants to change that with their lightweight electric cars. First inline to take over the world is their two-seater called City. Top speed 100 km/h and a range of 200 km on a full charge.

Made from lightweight neoprene and breathable air mesh, our new ultra-slim backpack streamlines the transport of your laptop and accessories. It accommodates 12-17inc models. Built NY.

Rachel Young from New Zealand is proving not all perspex design products need to be laser cut. She uses her origami secrets and skill and hand cuts and folds each of her bowls and lights. Her work goes under the brand name "Fold".

UK-based designer Julia Lohmann is bringing kelp into a new design realm with Kelp Constructs - a collection of wonderfully tactile lighting designs.

3rd Space FPS, a vest that input real pain in the player. Allows you to know where enemies are shooting from. Retailing for $169.00, it is available in Camoflauge or Black. Oh! Lights are fading... I'm feeling cold...

Artist Sean Christopher unveils some of his new artwork from his upcoming "Vanity Bonfire" exhibit at the Corey Hellford Gallery.

less is more -- elegant lightweight clay tableware from jurgen lehl.

FEATUREDSpeakers, Projectors, Ambient lighting - all in the modular form of adorable gnome like creatures and trees for your outdoor spaces... NOTConcept 002 ~ the final renders!

Unscrew America - a really cool site promoting the use of LED lighting. Great design in a funky unique kind of way.

Fantastic new denim specials by Japanese brand Evisu. They made Zippo lighters, denim teddy bears and also a motorcycle helmet together with Acejet!

Designer Julie Ruiz patiently lights hundreds of candles and takes thousands of pictures to create an animated sequence that is sure to brighten your day.

Playboy Outdoor | A creative Outdoor made for Philipp und Keuntje agency, using the lights to create a suggestive female form.

DOROTHY was created to challenge the often dull and basic world of lighting, by DesignbyThem

Really nice spot created by Goodby Silverstein & Partners and The Mill for Nascar/Sprint Speed Monsters campaign with cool lightning effects.

stunning organic porcelain lighting from london-based designer jeremy cole.

NXT - on packaging design innovation, they have injected air bubbles in their shaving products, used a clear blue container, and the led in the base lights it up like a lava lamp... Gimmicky, but interesting.

FEATUREDPolite In Public ~ Photobooths you can't do without for events. They will build mini sets complete with props, professional lighting and photography, live slideshows... everyone looks incredible!

A corian table embedded with 2400 LED lights and 2 trackpads turns it into a modern version of the 1972 Atari Pong game. Designed by Moritz Waldemeyer, it's part of MoMA's Design & the Elastic Mind Exhibit.

The beautiful entrance pavilion at the Trumpf factory in Ditzingen is designed by Barkow Leibinger and the lightweight structure is by the master of lightweight structures Werner Sobek.

Kengo Kuma's beautiful inflatable tea house for the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt. The structure's double membrane has built in LED lights and can also be used to for heating.

Dutch design studio Studiomeiboom has come up with The Enlightenment, a lamp that poses as a book on the 18th century intellectual movement, but really just enlightens your room and not your brain.

Built NY's Wine Ratchet (following in the Magnum's footsteps)... is a lighter weight ratcheting corkscrew constructed from lightweight rubber and includes a rubberized foil knife with a stainless steel tip

FEATUREDJean Marc Gady for Moet & Chandon ~ luminous ice bucket that lights up when placed on its base... could a bottle of champagne stand out any more in dimly lit lounge?

Manfrotto's Modosteady ~ a nice hand held steadicam of sorts that is a simply designed, ergonomic system for lightweight camcorders. Check out the video

A massive projection, generated by the collective sounds of the public, that lights up the facade of York Minster.

Uber cool moldable mouse concept, made out of lightweight modelling clay and covered with a nylon and polyurethane blend silky touch fabric.

A compact concrete house. Its shape is determined by the plot restrictions. Features an inner patio for cross ventilation and natural lighting. By H Arquitectes in Catalunya, Spain.

Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision

FEATUREDYada ~ you have to check out the pics of their well designed CES booth that draws you right into it with its cool lights and mini. And then i was surprised by the affordable and minimalist bluetooth headsets +accs!

How adorable is the Loremo car? lightweight, fuel efficient, aerodynamic...

Das Art has some amazing lighted sculptures hand-made using steatite and calcite

three dimensionl lighting system , size 4x4 meter
kabriha decoration - Israel

xmas lights for the server room ~ flip the switches and watch the various lights go on via webcam.

Lightworks : An exhibition by Marcus Tremonto at Phillips de Pury & Company | New York

Latest glossy glowing hard drive design - LaCie Hard Disk, Design by Neil Poulton, with "Surprising blue LED for ambient underside glow" (As if we need one MORE thing in the room with lights)

From KNOG: the frog [tadpole,frog,toad etc]...

Silicone encased single LED safety lights. Check out the knogalouge for more..

FEATUREDVirgin America ~ full of goodies from plugs at every seat and seat to seat chatting to live tv and crazy mood lighting... also an adorably cheeky animated safety video you have to watch! (including this tech happy nun)

Plumen, those kids at Hulger are changing the way you think about lightbulbs... where do YOU think the future of bulbs is going?

Interactive Christmas lights on London's Regent Street courtesy of Nokia and Wieden + Kennedy

The e-lighter can apparently fire up your next cigarette by 5v current .

Bodo Sperlein for Llardro Fairy Lights

Robert Stadler installation in a Parisian church

Zippo finally created an alternate lighter for those times when a classic Zippo is simply inappropriate for the task.

Serge Mouille Lighting is up up up...

Volitan” is a new lightweight and futuristic concept boat for circumnavigating the rivers and seas, using solid-sails and only wind power and solar energy.Her name comes from “flying fish” and she is a new symbol of raising awareness about sustainable use of resources on the sea.

Shroom Lights ~ by Jaime Salm + Katherine Wise. Adorable, sustainable, and the perfect mood lighting in clusters. Shade is made from100% wool. Frame is powder coated carbon steel

FEATUREDDaedalus & Icarus reinterpreted as lighting by Tord Boontje by Artecnica

Bahdeebadhdu ~ For anyone that wasn't sure what to do with all those found glass pieces... check out their chandeliers and lighting pieces!

Lichtfaktor - German "lightwriting" collective who create beautiful images in the air

Dominic Bromley of Scabetti Introuced a new line of lights at the 100% futures show. This one, SHOAL, is a must have!

I love the way this umbrella lamp glows. "Umbrella Lamp provides a spectrum of lighting possibilities, from soft, reflective illumination to a brightly focused reading lamp."

Greenlight Concepts creates retro-modern lighting fixtures using glass lenses recycled from discarded traffic lights.

The Troja Arc Lamp could be the most luscious lighting fixture of all time. The sweeping aluminum arc casts an ethereal glow using hundreds of individual LEDs. by Hans and Franz.

The Aesthetic Poetic briefly examines Japanese Bike manufacturer Arrow. The bikes are sleek, logo-free, lightweight and stylish.

A levitating wirelessly powered lightbulb

Wire-less power

VIDEOZygote Interactive Ball at BIP, Italy - by Alex Beim - is a lightweight inflated ball, illuminated from within, responds to any pressure applied to its surface with random led colors

Artecnica's ultimate illuminated manuscript, Book of Lights’ pop up protagonist emits a tabletop warming glow.

"finessed but never fussy" is the very apropos way jeremy pyles, of new york's niche design, describes his elegantly minimal handblown glass lighting.

Reware's Juice bag solar beach tote lets you charge with cigarette lighter adapters... pity that the bag is so ugly though...

This lamp from Korea's Buggle Lighting looks like a soldier ant. Perfect for Entomologists.

Designer Ross Lovegrove created this amazing system of "X"-shaped interconnecting fluorescent lights for Yamagiwa.

A twisting strand of 216 LEDs suspended by a thin wire, that is Robin Carpenters Spiralight. That, and 1st prize winner at Lights of the Future 2006 awarded by the German Design Council

Funky new accessories chain design.Feature the mini camera chain with lights,fun and stylish fashion accessories..loads of robots necklaces too!

Turn out your lights for two hours on the Summer solstice. A time to save energy, to think about peace, to think about people in distant lands who share your planet.

I see your Palumb0 M80 and raise you a Lightning GT. Zero to 60 in 3.9 also, but 100% electric.

This is an electromagnetically levitated lightbulb that is wirelessly powered. This piece will be shown at Sonar in Barcelona, June 14-16 created by Jeff Lieberman.

Innovative lighting creations from designer Ayala Serfaty and other designer goodies for the home at Industrial Storm.

Glide's Twist-Together LED Lights. LED Legos...on steroids [editor's note: also featured in #4011]

FEATUREDMixko Ice Cream lights ~ for a window display at Colette

The Lamp "Shade". This actually has sunglasses embedded into one side of the lampshade. Bizarre, but I want one.

Doonesbury - on all the many leds we have glowing, pulsating, blinking when you turn out the lights and your technology keeps running....

The lighting bug i have seen at Salone Satellite 2007. The firs flying luminous object ; )

Inspired by the Modern movement where artists explored color and spacial relationships; the TwistTogether Shelving blurs the lines between furniture and lighting.

FEATUREDLucifer - brilliant matchbook design... you shake a match out and as you pull it out it lights - also from Feel Addicted

A nice and very simple advertising idea for the Star Wars launch !

I may be looking for a tennis racket... and just noticed this porsche design one. Pretty... "The structure of the material creates the ideal balance of stability and lightness: 85% carbon, 15% Kevlar."

The traffic lights in New Delhi say: "Relax."
Photo : Robert La Bua

Amazing "machine lights", designed by Frank Buchwald, that wouldn't look out of place in a Jean-Pierre Jeunet film.

Luceplan, a Milanese lighting company founded in 1978 by the architects Riccardo Sarfatti, Sandra Severi and Paolo Rizzatto, opened its first store in New York yesterday.

A gorgeous picture of a lightbulb in the process of burning out. You can see the original (with out red tint to the smoke) on the site as well.

iNoPhone - former Apple mouse and a bluetooth headset into one small and lightweight handheld device. * OneButton Call Management

Cherry Blossom Flower lights over at It's K(not) Wood.

Cool Palladium USB memory stick made by S.T. Dupont. It kind of reminds me of their lighters.

Organic in material and form, the new aton luminaires are customizable lighting that elegantly walk the line between function and art.

Aluminum bottles for special promotions by beer and beverage companies seem to offer better marketing opportunities than glass. Also, they are lighter, have higher-definition graphics, cool faster and feel colder when handled.

Designed to be paired with food like a fine wine, Dry Soda comes in sophisticated, all-natural, lightly-sweetened flavors like Lemongrass and Kumquat.

Tom Seymour's Honey Comb lights are simple in design as well as construction. These flat pack lights emit a warm ambient glow. They come in various shapes and sizes.

Jargol has a nice post about Wunderwurks Design, the works of Tony Whurman, who is moving from glass blown lighting to a new line including this BACKLIGHT.

"On Wall" is a collaboration of product designers Tomoko Azumi, Rie Isono, Norico Katayama and lighting designer Hiroe Tanita. Climbable designer spaces.

Interesting Polar Lamps at Norwegian Northern Lighting

what a gorgeous portable fireplace...

another simple, but fun lighting idea. battery lights!

Bamboo Tube. Another playful lighting design from 100 Percent.

a lightbulb with two sides. One actually works, and the other one just for show. Turn any fixture into a statement

Heath Nash recycles trash into beautiful things like this flower lamp shade

Gregory Crewdson: Similiar in style to diCorcia, his photographs are on a much larger scale, production wise. Epic levels of drama are reached with film quality lighting and ultra obsessive compulsive scene creation.

What a great design for moving the air around

Marvin's gun from Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Only 10$ !!! and it has lights, makes noises, and shoots foam projectiles!

these pushpins are amazing! probably too lightweight for my wiring jobs, but still way better than most cable clips.

the god antennae gives a whole new meaning to wild. just needs one long spike to pick up lightning...

SIXIXIS designers use steam to curl and bend wood into amazing shapes. This is Curly Shade, 15 meters of Cornish Oak curling around a lightbulb.

The Bar Samurai is a very lightweight "Butterfly" style opener. For regular, static use the handle has a locking mechanism. WOW.

MACSABER - so when you swing your mac around - it makes lightsaber noises.