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If you set your mind to it, you can make a lamp out of just about any material you can think of. While I was perusing the pages of Instructables, I came across this unique and eye-catching modern ceiling lamp, made almost entirely out of zip ties.

Instructables Community Manager Audrey Obscura created this wild hanging lamp from roughly 1200 red 8″ zip ties. In order to put together the giant mesh of nylon, she would connect groups of 8, 12, and 16 zip ties at a time into a ring shape, then gradually assembled each of those to form the larger structure of the lamp. It’s kind of like doing crochet, but with zip ties.

The light fixture itself consists of a laser-cut mounting plate at the top, with some holes cut into it for hanging wires and candelabra bulbs. If you make your own, you can arrange the inner lamps any way you’d like, though I’d recommend using cool-burning LED bulbs to reduce the risk of melting your zip ties.

If you’re interested in building your own zip tie lamp, check out the full build details over on Instructables. Amazon has some great deals on color zip ties, and it looks like you could do this entire project for under $50.

Think ‘zip-tie for buttons’ and you’ll get the brainwave that is the FastButton. Designed to be an easy, effective, and needle-free solution for a popped button, the FastButton takes less than a minute to put on, stays longer than conventional buttons… and doesn’t need ANY threadworking skills.

The innovative plastic zip-tie/cable-tie lets you fasten your button on and secure it in place using a one-way sawtooth style fastener. The thin, bendable piece of plastic needs no putting threads through needle eyes, no skill in sewing, and results in zero possibilities of you pricking yourself with a pointed object. It can also be carried in abundance on flights since there’s no needle in the picture.

Using a FastButton is as easy as knowing how to use a cable-tie. Pass the tail through the fabric and weave it around the button before securing it in place with the circular head of the FastButton. Availabin both double-holed-button and four-holed-button versions, the FastButton is pretty much the most revolutionary product crossover, promising to change an aspect of fashion and apparel, with a product that’s humbly been holding LAN cables together in server rooms for the past two decades!

Designer: Fulvio Buonavoglia