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Solar-powered Ripe Radish lamps liven up your gardening experience

By | April 16, 2010, 1:46am PDT

Summary: There are some pretty ridiculous knick knacks out there to show off your geeky side, but this one is too clever to ignore. Designer Arthur Xin has fashioned these solar-powered Ripe Radish lamps to brighten up your garden - and maybe even help kick off a live-version game of Super Mario.

There are some pretty ridiculous knick-knacks out there to show off your geeky side, but this one is too clever to ignore.

Designer Arthur Xin has fashioned these solar-powered Ripe Radish lamps to brighten up your garden - and maybe even help kick off a live-version game of Super Mario.

Basically, the Ripe Radish lamps gather solar power during the day, lighting up the bright red bulbs at night in order to provide you an illuminated and fun-looking path back to your front door at night. Owners can even grow a real plant in the center of the radish to give it a more lifelike effect.

If I had a front yard and these came with a reasonable price tag (perhaps in a set of six, for example), I’d consider planting these in my lawn. Sadly, they just won’t look as cool in front of an apartment doorstep…just rather sad.

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Rachel King is a staff writer for CBS Interactive in San Francisco. Before serving as a contributing editor at ZDNet in New York City for two years, she previously worked for The Business Insider, FastCompany.com, CNN's San Francisco bureau and the U.S. Department of State. Rachel has also written for MainStreet.com, Irish America Magazine and the New York Daily News, among others. Rachel has a B.A. in Mass Communications and History from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.S. in Journalism from Columbia University, where she served as art director for the student magazine, Plated.

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