Design
Make a Houseplant Into a Lamp, via German Ingenuity
Lightly stroking your plants can light up the room.
Do you love your houseplants? I mean, really love them, to the point you can't help yourself from continually pinching and stroking them?
Then you're a special person, indeed, who might enjoy this succulent bit of light-based art from Stuttgart designer Viktor Kölbig. The "Aura" series of lamps have clear vases of water that are electrically sensitive to the touch. Flick the tip of your favorite leaf and bing! the lamp comes on. Plunk a finger into the agua and stir it around, and you can change the intensity and color of the hidden LED lights, kind of like mixing food coloring into the water.