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Pastry Artist Creates Edible Desk Lamp: Luxo, Edible

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Presumably envisioned in a eureka moment complete with a lightbulb going off over his head, incredibly talented pastry chef and chocolatier Amaury Guichon constructed a realistic desk lamp entirely out of edible ingredients. At first, I couldn’t believe my eyes. I saw those little springs and I thought ‘no way.’ But, as Amaury proves in the video, ‘yes way.’

The lamp base was constructed with a sesame streusel, black sesame Japanese roll cake, crunchy sesame tuile, a sesame praline, and a black sesame mousse. Sesame everything! The lamp’s upper armature was constructed from molded chocolate, and the light bulb was filled with crunchy caramelized sesame, which Amaury releases when he purposefully breaks the bulb in the video like a piñata.

Below: a chocolate spring being made before painting…

Obviously, this is the perfect cake for anyone who’s ever fantasized about taking a bite out of that hoppy little Pixar lamp, Luxo Jr. And who hasn’t, right? Come on, who hasn’t… right?

Real Life Luxo, Jr.: I Love Lamp

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Remember the classic Pixar animated clip, Luxo, Jr.? You know, the one with the pair of articulating Anglepoise lamps playing around, and shown with the Pixar logo at the beginning of their flicks? Well, in the latest occurrence of life imitating art imitating life, some guys have actually built an animatronic lamp that moves around like the one in the movies.

pinokio luxo lamp

Well, maybe it’s not exactly like the one in the movies – for starters, this lamp is black, and both Luxo, Sr. and Jr. were white. Plus, this lamp is designed to interact with humans, tracking faces and sounds – not bounce around on a little rubber ball. Using custom code, the lamp is able to express a personality in much the same way that the lamps did in the movie.

The robotic lamp, named Pinokio, was created by Victoria University students Shanshan Zhou, Adam Ben-Dror, and Joss Doggett using Processing, Arduino, and OpenCV. If they ever manage to mass-produce these things and then license them through Pixar, they’ll sell millions.

[via TDW via io9]