The British-made lamps have surged in popularity as younger audiences seek to recapture magic of the 1960s ...

If we got a mobile phone charm for every phone charm we ever saw, then we'd have a lot of phone charms. Most don't pass the Crave test, which is why you never hear about them. This one from Mathmos, ...

As far as bold home decor goes, there’s nothing more iconic than the lava lamp. Having a lava lamp in your childhood bedroom meant just one thing: You were earnestly cool. Trends — especially home ...

When Imre Jánosi’s teenage daughter asked him how her new lava lamp worked, she probably expected a quick explanation. But her innocent question sent Jánosi, a physicist at Loránd Eötvös University in ...

What is the best lava lamp? It seems that no matter how much culture changes, there’s always a demand for the retro, which is why the playful visuals of a lava lamp never seem to go out of style.

The story of the lava lamp begins in a Hampshire pub, where a British accountant named Edward Craven Walker spotted an unusual homemade egg timer made out of a cocktail shaker. In September 1963, he ...

Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Celebrating 50 years of the lava lamp A quick drink in a pub in the heart of Hampshire's New Forest was ...

Fifty years ago, Edward Craven Walker turned a neat idea into a global phenomenon, making the world a way more psychedelic place along the way. In September 1963, Walker was inspired by an oil and ...