Aug 23 2007Tree Grows Lights
Nick Foley has created what he is calling the Pear Tree. It is a metal tree with lightbulbs that you can remove and take with you to read nudie magazines under the covers when you girlfriend falls asleep.
The pear tree is a hand forged hollow steel tree that serves as the charging station for three urethane pear-lights. Each pear contains ten ultrabright white LEDs, an autonomous charging circuit, and rare-earth magnets that allow it to be "picked" from the tree and remain fully illuminated for over an hour.
While this is certainly a step in the right direction, I was kind of hoping Nick would have invented the Money Tree instead. I'm growing tired of pleasuring burly truckers at rest areas just to make ends meet.
One more of a close-up after the jump.
Tree Grows Lights [ohgizmo]
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Reader Comments
1. K\ - August 23, 2007 9:58 AM
That's actually kind cool looking. Wish it didn't look quite so barren though, not like a few leaves would have killed him, or the tree.
2. uruwai - August 23, 2007 10:01 AM
THIRD!!!!!
I have a full forest of fluorescent trees.
You see, I own a toxic waste management company, and we have this wonderful cost reduction program, that´s really effective and easy to implement.
We´ve been with it for several years now.
Basically, it implies watering the trees with radioactive material.
Luminiscent apples really do look great at the Thanksgiving table!!!
Now that I think of it, the amount of kids born with five arms has also risen a bit in the area... The handball school team will kick ass!!!
3. uruwai - August 23, 2007 10:02 AM
SECOND!!!!
4. Tenchi059 - August 23, 2007 11:05 AM
This is really cool. Uselessly cool, the kind of things I prefere.
5. Amy - August 23, 2007 11:49 AM
I suppose there's no word on a price is there? Since there isn't one it's probably too expensive for me to be able to afford, as usual.
6. curiousvelocity - August 23, 2007 1:15 PM
Hey, what's wrong with pleasuring lonely truckers at rest areas? Truckers are hot.
7. farming cacti - August 23, 2007 9:24 PM
This is amazingly cool. and I must say I'm impressed the new team here at geekologie were able to actually post something worth looking at
8. Courtney - August 24, 2007 12:15 AM
won't the pears get hot?
9. The Ninja - August 24, 2007 3:49 AM
Where can I buy this?? I wants it!
10. Clem - August 24, 2007 8:48 PM
The inside of my house is missing a dead tree with lights on....anyone got any idea where I can get one and for how much?
11. Able - August 25, 2007 2:11 AM
Weird, it makes me nervous.
12. Dodongo - August 25, 2007 12:58 PM
Courtney: No, LEDs don't get anywhere near as warm as a regular incandescent bulb. Just imagine the little red light on a remote control, only these are white, and brighter.
13. Yogadude - January 4, 2010 1:13 PM
It looks like something out of a Tim Burton movie. Cool, I want 7 of these ( don't ask why the specific number is 7 ). I bet Johnny Depp has 3 already...