In case you are in need of a refresher, this DLP throws out the normal lamp in favor of a cluster of LEDs that will (hopefully) provide better color and a longer life with no brightness degradation.

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Perhaps you recycle your cardboard and Coke cans, but if you're looking for a bit of inspiration from master design-recyclers check out this pendant lamp made from hundreds of soda tabs, this Cone Light made from repurposed traffic cones, and this chandelier composed almost entirely of six-pack rings.

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On 11 April, during one student protest, a 74-year-old woman, Monica Araya, took matters into her own hands, marched up to a group of masked youths and remonstrated with them as they tried to rip a lamp post out of the ground.

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Journe works out of a converted gas lamp factory on the rue de l'Arquebuse in Geneva--he's the only watchmaker in the city center.

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Soon, lamp-warmed burgers were fanning out from the McDonalds' Californian base.

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Mr Shears and Mr Bannon were one of a pair of two-man teams first to arrive at the flat after the fire broke out when a resident left a curtain resting on a lamp.

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Like drunken sailors reaching to a lamp post for support, Sarkozy and Merkel have reached out to yet another tax as a method of propping up the eurozone system.

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At Gadget Camp, sponsored in part by a foundation affiliated with the Fabricators and Manufacturers Association, girls learned how to make a lamp, a candy dispenser, and other useful items out of various materials including wood, metal, fiberglass and PVC pipe.

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Their dream project now is to design and build a freestanding playhouse where a recurring character in their work, a pixelated robot creature called The Agent who has shown up on paper and been realized into a lamp, a candle and balloons could live out its days.

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We also checked out the locally focused BKLYN Designs show, where design duo Bower unveiled an awesome magnetic LED lamp, made from discarded pieces of scrap wood.

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