Written on September 21, 2008 – 5:56 am | by Maria Mihale |


What’s the use of a lamp sitting at your bedside if it doesn’t tell fairytales to your children before going to bed? Ok, maybe your little ones could live without the misadventures of their favorite characters and the goodnight kiss, but could you handle the lack of music originated in the lamp you love so much?

Yes, everything must be multifunctional nowadays. You expect more from your furniture than to fulfill its primary purposes effectively. Therefore, you seek for additional functions. The AmpLamp makes its special debut as it offers a convincing lamp design with embedded powerful sound equipment. Combining a speaker with an amplifier and a table light, the AmpLamp features a very good sound quality and gives you the chance to enjoy music through a unique pice of true designer style.



The device is the launch product of Futuros Ltd., which was formed in 2006 by Paul Frobisher precisely to develop and produce the AmpLamp and aimed the equilibrium of technology and beautiful design. After exploring the concept of turning a loudspeaker into a piece of design that would blend into its environment, Paul Frobisher commissioned Dominic Bromley, a highly acclaimed ceramics designer, to create the housing for the AmpLamp.



As far as the speakers are concerned, those are hidden inside the lampshade, using a combination of technologies which create stereo sound from a single sound. The AmpLamp uses NXT and Airsound technologies which utilize the lampshade as resonance body and tiny side-spotted speakers that include the spatial information. Generating 80 watts of power, the amplifier and the strong subwoofer are embedded in the base. Compatible with any audio source you may own, the AmpLamp is also provided with a handy iPod dock/charging.

The AmpLamp is a “unique patent pending concept” at the moment, as we’re told on the Futuros’s official website, so there is no information about price and availability yet.

(Source Dvice)