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As an adult, you have the freedom to go into any grocery aisle and buy all the junk food you want. You can shop for clothes without your parents input. You can even paint the walls in your apartment black if you so please. But you know what you can't do? Fit into these awesome [...]

Belgium's 2012 Ghent Light Festival has transformed the Luminarie De Cagna into a stunning, lit-up building. The structure is home to an Italian family business founded in 1930, and the company lit up the square and its buildings with oil and carbide lamps on festive occasions. Eventually, the lamp...

If you're preparing for the end of the world, you should pack this explosion-proof flashlight in your emergency kit. The rechargeable LED flashlight from Larson Electronics is rated Class 1 Division 1 and Class 2 Division 1, able to operate in hazardous conditions, such as gas leaks, without a risk...

The future of the camera is here, and it allows you to shoot now, focus later. Mountain View, Calif.-based startup Lytro unveiled its new light-field camera Wednesday to much fanfare, even making waves at the AllThingsD conference in Hong Kong. Enter Camera 3.0. "Camera 1.0 was film. Camera 2.0 was...

If Apple made lamps, they'd look like the BE Light. The LED desk lamp folds down to a flat surface, resembling Apple's metal-brushed keyboard in size and design, making efficient use of space. When fully folded, its height is less than 2 centimeters, a shape that's convenient for storage. When full...

When you're fumbling around in the dark searching for the right switch in the fuse box, what's the most pressing issue at hand? Yes, you need light. But you also want to that light to match your sense of style. Headlamps might be dorky, but they can also be fashionable, thanks to Princeton Tec, an ...