The lamp is so energy efficient its eight white LED lights are powered by the trickle of electricity flowing from a RJ11 socket – or garden-variety telephone socket.

Instructables user scraptopower designed a thermoelectric lamp that can convert heat into small amounts of electricity. One of the best uses for this is building an LED lamp that runs from tea ...

The spherical lamp is made of four separate compartments containing the bacteria. As long as they’re happy and healthy, these microorganisms constantly give off small electrical currents.

Kastner and Joschko felt it was time to truly “celebrate electricity.” Their Interioricity line features a series of interchangeable elements–a metal-framed LED lamp and long, textile-cabled ...

About a billion people live without electricity, and they often turn to kerosene lamps: ultra dangerous, carcinogen-spouting, open flames that could turn homes into tinderboxes. So a new Indiegogo ...

Dutch designer Ermi van Oers has created a lamp that uses a living plant to generate its own electricity – and plans to scale up the technology to power entire smart cities. Presented at Dutch ...

UTEC’s “Plant Lamp” is designed as a safer alternative to dangerous fumes-generating kerosene lamps. Photo: Courtesy UTEC Reliable electricity is still a problem in a lot of ...