Glide’s Twist-Together LED Lights are the conceptual love child of LED technology and good ole Legos, offering a near-unlimited amount of customizable configurations using their twist-together assembly, which expands the overall form while efficiently sharing an energy source with each connection. Use as a floor or table lamp, attach as ceiling mounted "chandelier", or even integrate into shelving, these energy sipping 6-piece set light blocks are available in various colours (two colour ways are available: the “Chocolate” combination of caramel, cream, and chocolate colours, and the “Candy” combination of yellow, red, orange, blue, green and purple), and are cool to the touch thanks to their LED lighting system.
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These are really neat but the cost is outrageous for some LEDs in plastic.
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most: my initial reaction was similar. But one has to consider that these are not just plastic boxes with LEDs inside; the option to interconnect, expand and share a single energy source makes for a unique lighting system; there's very little out there like it. Also, because these are not being mass produced for a larger market retailer, the prices remain appropriately higher. I've designed mass marketing lighting, and you'd be horrified at what costs an "affordable" lamp must go through to reach the price point consumers start deeming it fair. With all the mass/affordable lighting out there, I'm actually quite happy that there are independent designers making niche products, and hopefully making a healthy profit. Eventually, we'll likely see knock-off variations from some of the retailers that have the infrastructure to bring costs down.
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