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Govee’s all-weather smart lamp post is under $200 for the first time

A look at how Jennifer’s yard gets a brightness boost thanks to Govee’s smart outdoor lamp post. | Photo: Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge If you have an outdoor space that needs some extra lighting, either for fun or security reasons (or a mix of the two), the Govee outdoor lamp post light is a good pick that’s 23 percent off its regular price right now.

Lamp made out of eggshells cracks prestigious furniture award

Judges for the Australian Furniture Design award were impressed by the lamp’s versatility ‘and how tactile it is’Joanne Odisho, a Melbourne furniture designer, collects thousands of discarded eggshells from local cafes. Then she sterilises them, dries them and puts them through a Nutribullet.These are the first steps in creating the novel material Odisho uses to make her Mod-u lamps, a collection of configurable Jenga-esque lighting pieces, which recently won her the coveted Australian...

LAMP: Data-Efficient Linear Affine Weight-Space Models for Parameter-Controlled 3D Shape Generation and Extrapolation

Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generating high-fidelity 3D geometries under explicit parameter constraints is central to engineering design, yet current methods often require large datasets and fail to provide reliable control beyond the training distribution. We introduce LAMP, a data-efficient framework for controllable and interpretable 3D generation that aligns signed distance function (SDF) decoders by overfitting each exemplar from a shared initialization, then generates new designs...

Are taxpayers being gaslighted by street lamp charm?

From lamp-post gatherings to iconic building: Centre for the deaf celebrates century

Hull Centre for the Deaf opened in 1926 and has been an important part of many people's lives.

Multi-feature Classification to Improve Colorimetric Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Fidelity

Loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) is a cost-effective and portable assay technique for performing nucleic acid-based diagnostics in the field whose adoption is hindered by design and reproducibility issues. This is due to a complex primer design process that fine-tunes parameters across 6-8 binding regions. The likelihood of assay success depends on satisfying thermodynamic and secondary structure constraints while maintaining target specificity and avoiding overlaps between...

‘The Edward Hopper of the Black Country’: the photographer whose epic shots captured Sikh life in Walsall

Paths You Take is a show that finds beauty in images of alienation as Billy Dosanjh turns his lens on race, identity, empire – and the men who kept the furnaces glowingIt was bitter in Walsall that winter of 1962-3 when snow turned the Black Country white. In After the Storm, Billy Dosanjh’s epic photographic reconstruction of one especially chilly night back then, an elderly Sikh man, recently arrived from the Punjab, stands under an old carriage lamp. He is, the shot suggests, seeing snow...

Black Comedy review – Peter Shaffer’s relentless farce provokes helpless laughter

Orange Tree theatre, RichmondA stealing sculptor struggles to keep his visitors in the dark, while they lope and grope with the lights out, in Shaffer’s escalating slapstick showA regular complaint against reviewers and awards ceremonies is lack of recognition for the lighting team. But, in Peter Shaffer’s 1965 play, the “sparks” are the stars.Inspired by a lamp gag the writer saw in Chinese theatre, a power cut in a south London flat is staged with blazing brightness representing total...

‘The Edward Hopper of the Black Country’: the photographer whose epic shots captured Sikh life in Walsall

Paths You Take is a show that finds beauty in images of alienation as Billy Dosanjh turns his lens on race, identity, empire – and the men who kept the furnaces glowingIt was bitter in Walsall that winter of 1962-3 when snow turned the Black Country white. In After the Storm, Billy Dosanjh’s epic photographic reconstruction of one especially chilly night back then, an elderly Sikh man, recently arrived from the Punjab, stands under an old carriage lamp. He is, the shot suggests, seeing snow...

Broken speaker? Finicky zipper? Anticonsumerist Repair Cafes urge you to fix it instead of pitch it

Anticonsumerist Repair Cafes urge you to fix it instead of pitch it Repair Cafes are part of a new brand of anticonsumerism - Bookmark On a drizzly Saturday morning late last month, the basement of the New Paltz United Methodist Church filled with old lamps, blunt knives, malfunctioning sound mixers and balky zippers. About a dozen volunteers welcomed the broken goods and their owners to a worldwide movement that’s evangelizing new relationships between people and their things. Repair Cafes...