Like other table lamps, the Lunaluxx will sit on your desk and offer light illumination to a small area of the room. Unlike them, it looks like a small flying saucer hovering on the table and looking for ants to abduct using its onboard tractor beam.
Made by Elivatix, it consists of a disc-shaped base attached to a cylinder-shaped head by a curved metal arm – not much different from a lot of existing lamp designs. Except, of course, for the floating metal disc that actually serves as the main lighting element once you insert it into the vertical space between the head and the base.
Lunaluxx’s floating disc is covered in phosphor, with a magnet in the center, which interacts with the electromagnetic coil in the lamp’s head to keep it hovering in mid-air. Blue LEDs installed on the base will beam invisible light onto the disc, which causes the phosphor to emit a bright white glow. Yes, the LEDs are invisible, so it won’t quite create the effect of a tractor beam – just a UFO on a scouting mission, trying to figure out what resources it can take home for later. Or something like that.
To switch the Lunaluxx on, you simply insert the phosphor disc when the lamp is plugged in; to switch off, just remove it and set it down somewhere else. The blue LEDs consume a mere four watts of power while providing illumination equivalent to a 20-watt bulb, although the magnetic levitation mechanism does sip an additional four watts.
A Kickstarter campaign is currently running to fund the Lunaluxx. Pledges to reserve a unit starts at €150.