It may be the best teaser for a lamp made with a loose wire and a light bulb: Touch the wire to turn on and off the lamp, as if David Copperfield was the designer responsible for this dead simple but intriguing object.
Admir Jukanovic, the (real) creator who graduated from the Royal College of Art in London, wants to keep the secret of the BingoIngo lamp a little bit longer — as he’s negotiating with two possible distributors, he said. The unuseful detail he dropped about it is that the light bulb consumes up to 100W.
So for now, it’s a guessing game. We take this shot: The lamp works by energy induction. Once you touch the wire, you actually move the loose part inside the circle and trigger a built-in mechanism. For the rest, the hook is the real wire.
What do you think?
Jerome Dahdah – March 9, 2007
My grandparents had a lamp about 15 years ago (it was probably older) that you just had to touch and it went on and off, so the tech, or at least this form of interaction, is nothing new. It does produce a pretty cool illusion, though.