Awesome lamp resembles Zeppelin airship

Jake Von Slatt tells Boing Boing, "I got an email this morning from Flaminio Bovino, a young Italian designer who though I might like this amazing blimp lamp he made. He was correct!"

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mwiik

Isn’t ‘zeppelin blimp’ nonsensical? Zeppelin is a rigid airship. A blimp is not.
- http://www.xeni.net/ Xeni Jardin
  
  title corrected.
  - Martijn Vos
    
    The link that calls it a blimp lamp should also be corrected. It has a metal frame giving it shape, so it’s really not a blimp.
Brainspore

OH, THE LUMINOSITY!
- niktemadur
  
  Damn, beat me to it. Along the same lines, put an audio speaker on the lamp, and every time you turn it on, a mp3 file plays over and over “Oh, the humanity! Oh, the humanity! Oh, the humanity!…”
szamriy

:)
Culturedropout

It’s all good fun until it bursts into flame and crashes on your desk…
- noah django
  
  better watch what wattage bulb you put in there
  http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_vCZlHTftV2I/ScgTJvPg58I/AAAAAAAAAtk/Ee9rAlTlvaY/s400/Oh+The+Huge+Manatee.jpg
- Brainspore
  
  Good thing it wasn’t a gas lamp.
http://www.facebook.com/motherunit Kathy Walton Thompson

From the thumbnail image on my screen, I thought it was a tampon.