helmet lamp

Second version UPDATE: An updated version is now available at the Pop-Up Store, Nieuwe Binnenweg 519, Rotterdam

 

First version (no longer produced):

Unfortunately I destroyed my Smila Blomma from IKEA, due to mistreatment: I let the bulb come to close to the plastic. After removing the Blomma, the construction of the lamp is as such suitable, that I could turn it easily into a (echo machine on) Construction Helmet Lamp (echo machine off). It needed just 1 screw, and I can still use the helmet as an helmet.

 

One can even go really nerdish and turn it into an autarkic lamp by adding a solar panel or a small windmill onto the helmet. During working day at the construction site the solar panel or windmill will charge a battery, at night the helmet can be put on the Smila Blomma construction next to for instance the wardrobe section of your house. Here it than functions as a 'Honey, I'm home' lamp.

 

John Bosma

Construction Helmet Lamp (2009-2011)

Superused: Version 1, 2009-2011: 1 (broken) Smila Blomma, 1 screw and 1 construction helmet

Superused: Version 2, 2011: 1 construction helmet

Rotterdam, The Netherlands

 

Superuse: www.superuse.org/story.php?title=Helmet-Lamp

Smila Blomma: www.ikea.com/nl/nl/catalog/products/10074646

 

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My helmet lamp is published on other websites

Pirates De Ikea (January 2009)

Ikea Hacker (April 2009)

Recyclart (June 2009)

The lamp is also published in a French Eco agenda 2010. Published by Editions La Plage, Sete. www.laplage.fr

ISBN 978-2-84221-209-4

Available at Vintage Robbery from June 4 until July 2 2011

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