The sands of time are a fickle thing and now we find that the light of time isn’t much better either. The Hourglass Lantern Lamp by designer Young Bok Kim uses LED lights to gauge the passing of time, slowly lighting up one chamber of the lantern whilst the other fades, giving the classic hourglass effect.

In the spirit of making everything as eco-friendly, SONY has revealed their new line of solar charging lamps, the Hana-Akari Lamp. Artfully designed in four distinctive Japanese styles, each Sony Hana-Akari lamp comprises of four individual solar panels joined to form the lamp and turn light into energy.

The Calculating Chalkboard Maths Lamp by Mingyu Jeung is a great gadget. However, when you wake up in the middle of the night and are fumbling for the mens’ room, the last thing you want to do is work out the square root of 8393.998 before you can have a tinkle.

The Colago Hangman Lamp comes courtesy of Spanish designers enPieza, who clearly like to make light of death. Handmade from iron with electric wires for the noose, I can imagine this ‘gracing’ the halls in many a spooky slumber party.

The Coin Lamp brings you energy on a tight budget. Insert your coins in this coin-operated light source to bask in its light but if you run out of money, its lights out baby. Energy doesn’t come for free with the Coin Lamp

Batman fans rejoice, now you too can have your very own Dark Knight lamp to call Batman to your aid when in need. Attach it to your laptop and have the USB Batman Spotlight light up your desktop

Apple has become integrated into our very psyche these past 10 years with the explosion of the iPod. So much so that the new range of Apple iPod lamps comes as no surprise to GadgetHeat. The lamp is integrated with a speaker so that you can have your favourite tunes playing gently in the background [...]