A lamp that glows inside an actual dandelion

Almost everyone has some majestic memory involving summer sunshine cutting through a field and blowing white, fluffy dandelion seeds into the wind. Soon you can immortalise those warm feelings with a sleek, almost scientific-looking OLED lamp featuring a dandelion encased in acrylic. Behold: the OLED Tampopo. (“Tampopo” is Japanese for dandelion.)

Created by cinematographer Takao Inoue, this compact household lamp showcases the dandelion’s natural beauty with an OLED bulb embedded directly in the flower. “It reminds us of our old memories of picking up dandelion’s puff,” says Inoue. “The mysterious light gives us a moment to release ourselves.”