Here we have some more creative ideas on using the ever more popular LED eco-light formula.
The designer uses the old hand cranking pencil sharpener as an inspiration to create a hand-powered electricity generator. All one does is crank the handle a few times to generate and also store enough electricity to actually power a small LED light. And for some reason, they decided to keep the original functioning pencil sharpener as part of their design – YES – it actually sharpens pencils.
Hand Powered LED Light
I think that aspect will soon be left out of future designs as it is really completely redundant – unless of course you’re actually buying it for a novel pencil sharpener – perhaps for the the man, woman or child who has everything. But it’s a nice ploy and sort of celebrates the original pencil sharpener design’s invention.
Flip-Out Hand Crank for Manual Recharge
As you can see from the pictures, it’s basically a cylindrical shape with a little button at the top which releases the hand cranking handle for you to charge the LED up again or further. Then you just flip the cranker away and you’re back with a moderately elegant small light. It would be interesting to know how much cranking provides how many minutes of light – I guess that’ll be published soon. The light-weight light can be suspended from a thin cord and comes in several somewhat neon looking colors.
An interesting gadget with a good element of novelty - the sort of thing that should be released at Christmas, 
so children can have fun in the early hours with their stockings (or am I rather out of date with modern christmas routines?)!
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Then, if you apply the simple code eli6107, you will save a further $500 on this elegant, interesting avant-garde chandelier. Now suddenly it’s looking really interesting, and well worth the extraordinary discount of $1400. That makes the cost of this just under $1 000 – and that’s including shipping. This offer expires in a few days – on 25th June – so go for it!
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A good example of the sort of discount you can get is illustrated with this Crystorama Clearance European Classic 10-Light Chandelier, which they are selling at one third off the original asking price of US$2427.13.
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An Oddly Intriguing LED Lighting Design:
The VorteXX LED Chandelier
Here is a pretty good example of the creativity, flexibility and versatility that opens up with the latest enlightened buzz – LED. Although the actual shape of this particular ultra avant garde design doesn’t quite move me personally, it certainly opens up the huge possibilities that creative designers can explore. This particular design is from the Zumtobel company
and they profess a strict philosophy of keeping the end product as efficient as possible with regard to light power, replacement of broken parts, minimising the use of raw materials or, as they refer to it, using “Lean” raw materials (I hope that includes the packaging as well!). They also ensure that their products are easily serviceable and even upgradable. It all sounds very interesting.
A Fibreglass Zumtobel Masterpiece Collection
Yes – fibreglass is the principal ingredient here – re-inforced of course. And inside it are embedded some 190 LED bulbs. They also use a translucent acrylic within the housing and the LED colors can be varied and changed at will through its very own touch panel.
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