r/interesting • u/lurvvv • 5h ago

SCIENCE & TECH My early 2000’s ufo lamp

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u/Tio_chubby052 5h ago

I had a mini one

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u/The_Flo0r_is_Lava 5h ago

Some people prefer the mini ones....

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u/after-midnight3576 5h ago

that is spot on

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u/maternalconnector 3h ago

The mini ones were somehow even cooler. tiny UFO, same commitment to the space-age aesthetic.

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u/BrilliantSession95 4h ago

It's a legendary lamp that gave the room a certain atmosphere of its own.

But I remember that, for some reason, they often broke though they certainly looked really cool.

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u/FancyHeart 5h ago

You unlocked a core memory with this one. My next door neighbor used to have one of those in the early 2000's I still vividly remember the feeling of running my hands through those fiber optic thingies.

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u/grandcity 5h ago

Hell yes. Put that next to a water bed

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u/lurvvv 4h ago

You know whats up

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u/grandcity 1h ago

Cool as crap

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u/islaisla 5h ago

I had one in the 80s!

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u/Drakorai 5h ago

I have a little Christmas tree like this. It’s so pretty

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u/Rubysage3 5h ago

I had one of these! I had a nightlight version you could plug into the wall.

These were cool. No clue what happened to mine.

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u/HorrorIcy8441 4h ago

That's so fun

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u/grandpaswear55 4h ago

Hell yeah

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u/Glittering_Airport_3 5h ago

I used to love fiber optic lights. I've had a couple when I was a teenager

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u/sheepish_wolffe 4h ago

But did you get it at Spencer's?

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u/lurvvv 4h ago

Nope, live in Nordic climates

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u/MSGisking 5h ago

Not interesting

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u/lurvvv 5h ago edited 5h ago

Damn, wrong sub then