In reality the Wooden Light Bulb is a lamp, but the ambiance is still one of projected fire, just like The Lord of the Rings Eye of Sauron!
Keep the hobbits away from the Wooden Light Bulb from Fukusada Design, because they would be apt to fly before the source of the light and hide out in a Green Dragon Tavern until all of their fear is swallowed up by an abundance of ale and fare.
The illuminated piece of wood might seem hard to visualize, but Japanese designer Ryosuke Fukusada crafted this amazing lamp using LED lighting within a shell of a wooden light bulb that was forged via a Japanese chipping process called ROKURO.
The wooden casing is extremely thin so that there is the effect of the wood radiating light.
And the former sharp employee Fukusada adds a modern aesthetic with the aluminum bulb base. The low heat emitting LEDs make this cool (no, wait, hot folks) lamp possible without fires breaking out, though the fiery light given out might cause guests to start (so please assure them that they do not have to run away).
The illusion is that of a hanging light bulb of flames, or (with the lights off) that of the potential evil Middle-Earth overlord Sauron’s great lidless eye, wreathed in flame (and menacing)!
This prototype is only the beginning, as Fukusada hopes to use this new technology to innovate many lighting effects that have rarely been dreamed of.
The Wooden Light Bulb will certainly make a normal dining room look more like a hall of kings, yet still feeling modern to the day’s standards, as fire lights encircle the great table, like the medieval torch-bearing chandeliers of old.
