I am not an elephant! I am a light fixture! I am a lamp!

Daan van den Berg scanned Ikea's LAMPAN lamp, infected the form with a digital "elephantiasis" virus, then ran out the result on a 3D printer. [Next Nature]

[#1 posted by strider_mt2k, April 30, 2009 11:25 AM]

Little club soda get that right out.

Club soda'd fix nearly anythang.

[#2 posted by HeatherB, April 30, 2009 1:25 PM]

That's just nasty.

[#3 posted by Marcel, April 30, 2009 2:25 PM]

Brilliant!

That's exactly the kind of thing that makes me get the hots for 3D printing. Well, that, and the prospect of being able to home-bake the lost battery cover of your vintage collectible electronic toy.

[#4 posted by TJ S, April 30, 2009 3:03 PM]

@Strider:

+1 for the Venture Bros. reference.

[#5 posted by strider_mt2k, April 30, 2009 6:04 PM]

Go Team Venture!

[#6 posted by zenpoet, May 1, 2009 8:47 AM]

Looks like something out Resident Evil. Gross.

[#7 posted by Anonymous, May 4, 2009 8:38 AM]

The famous quote from "The Elephant Man", play and film, is "I am not an ANIMAL! I am a HUMAN BEING!".
It's absolutely chilling and perfectly worded to make us rethink our perception of those who appear different, especially those as deformed as Joseph Merrick.
I don't imagine you meant any harm, but the art of quoting or paraphrasing is subtle, and I think you minimized the joke by mis-quoting the original.

[#8 posted by Rob Beschizza, May 4, 2009 8:46 PM]

But it's a lamp.