This week an interesting hardware and designware mashup by designer Mikhail St Denis called ILoveLamp combines home automation lamps, a Botanicalls twittering plants type interface, automatic watering, and windowfarms localized apartment-level lighting into a compact design concept that would be interesting to see in distribution. With a named reference to the awesome Anchorman scene “I Love Lamp” how can you go wrong?

I Love Lamp:

I Love Lamp by Mikhail St Denis:

Of course there’s also the “i love lamp” iphone app, which monitors your real-life lava-lamp. But those dont breathe yet.

In other news, prepping a talk on first 10 years of locative games, and running a few Budgetball games at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London tomorrow night