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Don’t Fear The Dark, Or Loki, With These Badass Avengers Nightlights
If they can defeat Loki’s forces, The Avengers shouldn’t have much trouble battling your child’s fear of the darkness at night. At least not with these slick Avengers-themed LED-powered nightlights designed to look like Captain America’s shield, Thor’s hammer and Hulk’s fist smashing through a bedroom wall.
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This Technicolor Installation Lets You Paint Sydney Harbour With Light
The Sydney Harbour Bridge? Beautiful, sure, despite its sombre suit of grey steel. But every night from now until June 10, the bridge’s arches will get a magical, multicoloured makeover, thanks to a kilometre of fibre optics and thousands of programmable LED bulbs.
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How To Turn Burning Gas Into A Lamp Without Blowing Yourself Up
If you were a coal miner in the early 1800s, the light you used was an openflame oil lamp — even though mines were sometimes filled with “fire-damp”, a volatile mixiture of air and methane gas. Explosions were inevitable and threw bodies from mine shafts like grapeshot from a cannon. Humphry Davy became a national…
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Disco Balls Can Actually Facilitate Art, Not Just Boogying Down
Putting 50 mirrored balls in a semi-lighted room seems like a terrible idea. Actually, it seems like a great idea for a rave, and a bad idea for an art installation. But it worked out pretty well at the CLICK Festival in Denmark.