Jahan Khalili’s X-Ray Lamps

Jahan Khalili is a Texas-based cancer researcher who enjoys making things with scientific objects he salvages, and old x-rays are a favorite. Quickly becoming obsolete as digital x-rays replace them, x-ray films provide an increasingly exotic material to work with. Jahan's x-ray lamps offer a glimpse into an intimate yet abstract world. Have any of your own x-rays laying around the house? Send them to …

The Light Pick

The Light Pick is a new pick from Santa Cruz Light Wells, a company that aspires to provide innovative products to musicians and music educators. Their first product is a combination pick (left or right handed) and metronome. The pick can be set for 20-240 beats per second; the small leds light it up to the beat. It can also be set to flash for …

The Chocolate Barn

Lucinda Gregory started The Chocolate Barn nearly 30 years ago. This Vermont jewel is actually in a 19th century barn and features more than 50 kinds of hand-dipped chocolates and many flavors of fudge. But the real story here is her enormous collection of antique European chocolate molds. Big, small, simple, ornate—there are molds for every holiday, mood and occasion. There is a always a …