Simple and beautiful LED-lit sea urchins

Furniture & Lighting Science Technology

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The Evil Mad Scientists created these awesome, dead-simple accent lights by dropping an LED clipped across a battery into a sea urchin shell from a beach shop. Windell describes the guts as a “throwie sans magnet.” I love the way these look. But I hereby pledge to dig in, with both heels, and resist the term “urchie” with all my power, unto my dying day.

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I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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