Brooklyn-based designer Richard Clarkson has been experimenting with artificial cloud designs for several years now. His impressively executed series of artificial clouds range from simple lampshades ...

With the exception of astraphobes, the sound of rain and thunder can be relaxing — a nice time to spend an afternoon indoors reading or a way to fall asleep quickly. If mere sounds aren't quite up to ...

At first, the Cloud Lamp seems like a mirage: It looks like a real cloud and even emits claps of thunder. But then it flashes green, red, and blue, plays music–and is hanging in your living room. An ...

The IKEA DRÖMSYN is a wall mounted cloud night light that’s perfect for a kid’s room. For $10 USD, it’s just begging for somebody to cram some electronics in there and make it do something cool.

Indeed it does, and that’s its name: Cloud. It’s not just some cotton-wool-and-lightbulb botch job, mind you – its similarity with a good old cumulonimbus goes further than mere looks. It’s packed ...

If you love thunder and lightning, but don’t want to be outside during a storm, the Cloud Lamp is definitely something you want for your home. Designed by Richard Clarkson, the Cloud is supposed to ...

London-based designer Yu Jordy Fu has produced a range of hand-cut paper lampshades called Cloud Lamps. The designs are cut freehand from recycled paper, then folded around a light source. Three Cloud ...

An article asking who will first offer a LAMP platform as a service offering raises an even more fundamental question: does cloud computing even need the LAMP stack? James Urquhart is a field ...

The humble lamp is a common build for a hacker looking to express themselves creatively. Often, nature can serve as an inspiration, as was the case for [Michael Pick]’s Storm Cloud. (Video, embedded ...

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