Light Up Your Room with A Satellite Replica!

Lamps come in all shapes and sizes nowadays, as the manufacturers try to come up with all sorts of new designs that will make their products more interesting for certain specific market segments. And one very peculiar lighting device of this type is the one you're about to see as follows, namely the Satellite Lamp, presented by the people over at the Discovery Channel shop, which borrows its shape and overall design from the first satellites mankind launched into space.

Although the vendors are built to resemble the early satellites in the U.S. Vanguard satellite program, the truth of the matter is that it looks a lot more than the former Soviet Sputnik satellites, at least at first sight. Furthermore, this retro-satellite look is enhanced by the addition of 24 LED lights, which make it shine in the night as fireworks (as a customer's review puts it), something that would have certainly made even the original satellites a lot more attractive.

The main selling point this device has to offer is obviously represented by the 24 bright red, green and blue LED lights, but the device also provides some other interesting features, as for example the 8 display options, controlled via a realistic red "engage" switch. Unfortunately, the finishing touches are not exactly great, due to the fact that this thing is manufactured out of a relatively cheap-looking plastic, somewhere in China.

The device is not exactly very bulky, as far as lamps go, measuring just around 10.2 x 10.2 x 9.3 inches (25.9 cm x 25.9 cm x 23.6 cm), at a weight of around 2.05 pounds (929.864 grams), which means that it won't occupy too much space around the user's room or office (it can also work pretty well as a desktop lamp).

The Satellite Lamp from the Discovery Channel shop retails for around 40 US dollars, which is a pretty small price to pay for such a colorful item, which could always make quite an interesting gift for one's kids.

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