From a post at Make Mag, I discovered the absolute English translation hilarity that is Maurizio Lamponi Leopardi’s product and portfolio website.  Even though the broken English is enough to keep you yucking for 20 minutes or so, his lamps are fantastic.  He’s taken headlamps and handlebars and turned them into beautiful pieces that would look great on any desk.

In addition to cycle, Vespa, and other two-wheeled forms of locomotion, he dabbles into airplane lamps, Greek mythology-based lamps, and others.  Check out his site:  Lamponi’s Lamps.

That’s right, LAMPS.  Not “light bulbs,” as my wife and I have oft discussed, because I am a big nerd.  Dark Roasted Blend posted an enormous post about lamps and a bunch of creative “edits” done in the vein of the subject of lamps.  You need to check it out!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN from JimOnLight!

When I was trying to find some funny image to post for this goulish day, I discovered something eerily related to light, and what a perfect venue in which to post it!  Sorry, I wish that I had discovered these sooner!!!

Halloween Compact Fluorescent Lamps!

Did you know that pretty soon over a half a billion people are going to be saying goodbye to incandescent lamps?  Yeah.  A half a billion, plus.  There’s a great article at Forbes about this very topic.  Please read it!

An excerpt:

In a little more than a year, more than half a billion people in nearly 30 nations around the world will bid adieu to the incandescent light bulb.

Last week, the European Union joined Australia, the Philippines and Cuba in finalizing plans to outlaw the sale of incandescent light bulbs by 2010. The U.S. plans to ban the bulbs beginning in 2012.

And for good reason. Incandescent light bulbs, which convert heat into light, are notoriously lazy, using only about 2% of the electricity they consume and wasting the rest as heat. Considering that lighting accounts for nearly one quarter of the world’s electricity use, the potential energy savings are prodigious. The prospect of converting those savings into profits has encouraged a clutch of companies to commercialize cutting-edge lighting technologies. If the past presages the future, it will take more than an intriguing technology and superior economics to kill the incandescent light bulb, especially in the U.S.