Really BIG lava lamp.

Advantages: Huge. Soothing. Good value.
Disadvantages: Takes forever to heat up.

...A lava lamp is, in principle, very simple. It consists of a lamp, which heats up a glass bulb filled with a waxy solid and a liquid. These cannot mix together and must have very similar densities. As the solid heats up, its density is lowered, so it rises. This cools it down and it then falls to the bottom of the lamp, creating a strangely soothing effect. In practice, making one yourself would involve messing about with expensive and perhaps flammable chemicals, so I wouldn't bother trying. It is much easier just to buy one yourself. The Giant Grande Lava Lamp comes in two colours yellow and blue or yellow and violet. It is truly enormous at 27" and is guaranteed to be a focal point in your room. It is not called "giant" and "grande" for nothing! My lamp is a yellow and blue model. Although the product description says "yellow...

drewish 10.01.2007 · Read review
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Review of Giant Grande Lava Lamp

Budget priced projector fits the bill

Advantages: Excellent value for money
Disadvantages: No fancy features

...100A SVGA Projector - 2000 ANSI lumens, 3yr de-install/re- install warranty * Image Brightness - 2000 ANSI lumens * Max Resolution - SVGA 800 x 600 (Native) * Dimensions - W x D x H 27.2 cm x 20 cm x 8 cm * Weight - 2.3 kg * Image Contrast - Ratio 2000:1 * Bulb Type - 180 W (3500 hours normal / 4000 hours eco) * Power - 100 - 240VAC, 50/60Hz * Supported Resolutions - 1280 x 1024; 1152 x 870 (Mac 21"); 640 x 480 (VGA/Mac 13"); 1024 x 768 (XGA) compressed * Image Size - 0.7 - 7.69 m * Throw Ratio - 1.9 to 2.1 * Projection Distance - 1.2 m - 12 m Now I don't pretend to understand much of the above but from my perspective it was a relatively small machine which would make it easily portable and at 2.3 Kg it wasn't too heavy. The lamp life is reasonable especially in eco mode which should easily cope with the use...

laramax 03.08.2009 · Read review
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Review of NEC NP100

Lucy, the revolutionary new LED lamp torch

Advantages: Fantastically bright and light
Disadvantages: Could do with an improved clip design

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Martinscholes 05.07.2006 · Read review
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Review of Lucy LED torch/lamp

The Old Lamp

Advantages: Make you think
Disadvantages: Not sure

...Outside the lamp was swinging, a breeze had forced it so. But also came a squeaking, through me it would go. The wind becoming fierce now, it?s driving me insane. My head would never stand it, this noise would not refrain. This lamp was kind of bashing, it now should surely break. But it continued onward, please stop for heavens sake. The gale whisked dust around us, a whirlwind here bestow. The lamp was still relentless, swinging to and fro. Suddenly the wind was calm, its strength just passed away. Now my head was pounding, a headache came my way. The wind began to hush then, but left me with a frown. Ill have to take it off that hook, for now I must lie down. Next day there came a mission, to stop this awful squeak. So out came the ladders, aloft I took a peek. A bird had nested safely, with chicks she had to feed...

TeresaTunaley 26.05.2003 · Read review
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Review of Poetry

I LOVE LAMP!

Advantages: Hilarious, quotable script and great performances
Disadvantages: A bit weird and silly for some

...that really makes this stand out. The film starts off as a standard 70s pastiche with some nice one-liners, but by the end it's an all-out comedy which rivals any in terms of the jokes-to-laughs ratio - a very important factor. The funniest character is not actually Burgundy, but in fact the scene stealing Steve Carell as Brick, the weather guy. People like him because he's "polite and rarely late", and he comes out with some of the funniest and most random lines, such as "I ate a big red candle", "I love lamp" and "Where'd you get those suits, the toilet store?". Carell is one of my favourite comic actors, and he's without doubt the best thing about this film. The rest of the cast are great too - Will Ferrell is very funny, and really suits this role, surely because he wrote it for himself. He's a whole lot better in this than in...

l-m-n-o-p 22.02.2007 · Read review
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Review of Anchorman (DVD)

Sony Portable Projector

Advantages: Easy to carry, light and compact
Disadvantages: Expensive to maintain

...I have used this Sony Projector for over 3 years. It is very light, compact and easy to use. It comes in a canvas carry case with shoulder strap. The projector itself folds up in to a compact carry case. The front cover folds over with a handle and locks so it can be carried like a mini briefcase. The control functions are on top of the projector. There is a row of buttons on the front, Power,Input,APA, and volume control. On the right are buttons for reset,menu,arrow keys and enter. There are 4 light signals,lamp,fan,power saving,standby. The port at the back has audio,mouse,video,svideo and scart to laptop connection. THe SONY LCD Projector made in Japan is very reliable. THis one is probably 5 years old. Replacement lamps for it are now very expensive. When you switch it on it is ready to use in about 3 minutes. The picture...

damien.gallery 14.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Sony VPL CS2

Bulbs - No - Lamps ..

Advantages: Better than normal
Disadvantages: More expensive & 110 volt.

...OK this is a review on a light bulb! "How do you write more than a sentence"? I hear you ask, "Not a clue" says I. Although there are some things you probably don''t know about them. Firstly, the bulbs are more properly called lamps, bulbs are the things that grow in the garden. Secondly, the lamps that are used here are designed to be used in a harsh environment than usual, they are made to stand a lot of abuse, vibration, shocks, and extremes of temperature. They cost a little more, but are designed not to fail as easy as ordinary lamps. These lamps are always "Pearl" ones, not clear that could dazzle. They are made of slightly thicker glass than household ones, and the filaments are able to withstand a little more abuse. They are actually called "Rough service lamps". They are marketed under the brand name "Britelight...

smudgeybabes 13.04.2007 (17.04.2007) · Read review
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Review of Birchwood 60W GLS Bulbs

Lighting the LAMP

Advantages: dead good
Disadvantages: you'll turn into a geek

...exception being that there is again no charge for MySQL. When you shove all this stuff together you get something called a “LAMP” (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). LAMP servers are very quickly becoming the platform of choice for web development, particularly here in Europe, with the result that the folks at Microsoft and Sun are, quite justifiably, shitting themselves. Because there are no license fees, almost all web teaching in universities and colleges around the world also tends to be based upon LAMP so the kids are graduating “ready trained” in the technology. As a result they are reluctant to embrace the more costly and slower ASP and J2EE technologies. In particular, we have recently seen an explosion of talented PHP designers and programmers coming out of the former Eastern Block countries. What’s nice...

tagheur 08.06.2003 · Read review
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Review of Apache

Sony's Excellent Projector

Advantages: High Brightness, 3LCD Projection System, AIAS (Advanced Intelligent Auto Setup), Short Focal Length
Disadvantages: Abit Noisy

...The Sony VPL CX21 is a bright, slim, and stylish projector designed for mobile applications. A friend of mine has this and we always watch movies on it. The projector has many features which I've written about below with brief explanation of each feature: - High Brightness of 2100 ANSI Lumens The projector has three Sony 0.63-inch LCD panels and a latest designed 165 W lamp, it has a brightness of 2100 ANSI lumens, which provides amazing image quality even in very high ambient-light. The projector has a resolution of XGA (1024 x 768), this simply means fine display of even the smallest details. - 3LCD Projection System This is what the Sony projector is all about, it has a 3LCD projection system which means the projected images are bright and natural and for this to be achieved it has 3 LCD panels. It provides high light...

Surj1 09.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Sony VPL CX21

Light up your desk or not

Advantages: Can move the light into any position
Disadvantages: Gets way to hot

...Just before Christmas I brought myself I new desk for my computer and I decided that I would also get myself a lamp for the desk as I only had the main light of the room, so I had a look round and found this one, it looked ideal. ~Product~ It is an adjustable lamp. You have the option of moving 3 different parts of the lamp. At the top you have the head which you can move up and down or from side to side depending where you want the light to shine, you as have a metal stick that comes out of the head so you can move the head to where you want it. Then you have the mid section, this part just goes up and down so you can adjust the height of the lamp, which again I found very helpful. Then you have the bottom section this you can move round 360 degrees to suit you, so you have the light exactly how you want it. It came with a GU...

Maxlarndison 20.03.2007 · Read review
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Review of GU10 Desk Lamp