Sunlight Mincer

Another attempt in trying to find any useful use for energy-saving-bulbs: The Sunlight Mincer, converting sunlight (add from top) into minced light. 

Big thanks to my friend Jeff for suggesting the mincer is powered by sunlight.

And this is how it works:

Royal Monsterhagen

The first piece of (porcelain) Royal Copenhagen Monster diner set

Tapered Kaleidoscope

This is what it looks like:

Each inner side is a mirror. Because of the tapered shape, the mirrors create a globe image.

And this is what you get:

On top of an iPad:

Looking at the sun (almost):

On top of an iPad:

On a flat white surface: 

Two fingers in front:

Monster hunter eye test equipment

I'm considering a career move to optics, specializing in helping out visual disabled monster hunters...

Heat bead StarWars

Heat beads... finally I figured out a design that integrates a "foot" (to make a heat-bead surface stand up) in a natural way. I've always been amazed by the enourmess popularity of a product that creates so unusable end results; a flat piece of plastic that fall apart slowly over time. I wonder where George Lucas got his inspiration from but I wouldn't be surprised if there was a set of heat beads in the young Lucas' house.

Pin Lamp: PIMP

Besides throwing heavy balls from a great distance at it, the probably second best thing you can do with a bowling pin is make a lamp out of it. My latest lamp is called "Pimp" (PIn + laMP = PIMP).

I know that it is a very obvious thing to do, but sometimes, it just is really nice to do the most obvious. It also brought me one step closer in my eternal quest for "Is-there-anything-sensible-you-can-get-out-of-an-energy-saving-bulb-?"

For people in the audience that still think it is not good enough for my standards, then I can comfort you with that this "let-me-do-this-it-only-takes-2-seconds" project turned out to be a rather epic journey along un-drillable wood, multi layered armored plastic pin wrapping, finding a bulb that fits that shape and blood sweat and tears....

Roller-Lamp

There is something with roller-skate wheels that is very hard to beat; they run smoothly, feel heavy, are solid, are tough, carry cool text messages, are indestructible...

The tin can matches the size of the the energy saving spot light inside precisely

The chase for how-to-get-anything-sensible-out-of-energy-saving-bulbs continues...