Lava lamps are the most recognizable item of lighting in the world, and every single one of the official lamps is made by Mathmos at their factory in the UK. Inventor Edward Craven Walker came up with ...

The British-made lamps have surged in popularity as younger audiences seek to recapture magic of the 1960s ...

If you grew up pre-Y2K, chances are you’re familiar with the concept of a lava lamp. It’s much less likely that you’ve ever encountered a lamp made out of literal lava. That’s the basic description of ...

Regular lava lamps haven’t been unironically cool in decades, but technologists keep finding new and exciting ways to update them for the 21st century. Recently, we covered the way that Silicon Valley ...

A British company began marketing their original creation as an "exotic conversation piece" in 1963. Since then, millions of models of the much-copied invention have been sold worldwide. The design ...

NOSTALGIA PROBABLY ranks somewhere near the bottom on the list of causes of kidney failure. But a 1996 report in the Annals of Emergency Medicine relays the story of a 65-year-old man who guzzled the ...

Father-and-son duo Alberto and Francesco Meda have designed a trio of pendant lights for Italian brand Foscarini, moulded from a novel material containing powdered lava stone. The Alicudi, Filicudi ...

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