Recently, Carsten Lüter, a biologist at the Berlin Museum of Natural History, and his colleagues dissected the eyespots of some lamp shell larvae.
All the lamp nodes compose a wireless sensor network (WSN) based lamp group in which there are a lamp leader, a succeeding leader, and some lamp members.
Post the flyers in a few letterboxes of people that live near you, and put one up in a shop window or on some lamp posts too.
Some lamps and shades are designed for specific tasks, others for accent lighting.
I have some lamps made by Marianna Kennedy, and what I switch on is not a bulb on a stem; it is her sense of light.
Some lamps in the sitting area would be good, but since I've forgotten my book, I'm texting the Beer-loving mate.
Chanel's new Peridot is a nacreous green-gold and eerily luminous, recalling some lamps of Louis Comfort Tiffany, which leave me cold … but that same unearthly glint in nail polish looks edgy and sophisticated all at once.
Some lamps by Michele De Lucchi, Vico Magistretti and others are up to 30 percent off at Artemide through Saturday (the Tolomeo Classic, usually $420, is $315 ; the Dalù, originally $110, is $85 4646 Greene Street (Broome Street); (212) 925-1588 or artemide.net.net
As we left, we took a few items that we thought were meant for us -- nothing much, just some lamps, a couple of sofas, an ottoman, a kitchen table and four chairs.
Benda, the gallerist, piped up: "It's very easy to give some money to a charity, or go on a safari, but this is a project where you're not just giving money to someone who goes to China to buy some lamps".
Some lamps are made of glass like the votive lights of Roman Catholicism with a wick dipped in a vegetable oil, usually coconut; some are made of clay; and others are made of rice paste with a central hollow filled with ritual clarified butter, or ghee, or are cut out of a plant stalk in the shape of a bark or raft.
