Nuke Lamp



Add a little armageddon chic to your home with the Nuke Lamp from VeneriDesign. It's yours for only $1,445.53.

If they're charging that much, couldn't they have rounded down to an even $1445?
     Posted By: Alex - Mon Mar 03, 2014
     Category: Armageddon and Apocalypses | Furniture | Overpriced Merchandise





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You're conversion is off a bit, Alex. €1,266.26 = $1,741.88 but, I wasn't really going to buy one anyhow.

http://www.xe.com is where you can convert current monetary values.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 03/03/14 at 10:23 AM
Perhaps the 45 refers to 1945 (the first A bomb) and the 53, 1953 (the first H bomb).
Posted by Bill the Splut on 03/03/14 at 11:24 AM
Expat -- I didn't convert anything. $1445.53 is the price I see quoted on the shapeways.com site. Is it quoting you a price in Euros?
Posted by Alex on 03/03/14 at 02:28 PM
A gift for those waxing nostalgic over those "duck and cover" drills we used to go through in grade school.

When you see the light, what do you do?
DUCK, AND COVER!

It always helped to have a handy drainage ditch nearby.
Posted by KDP on 03/03/14 at 02:48 PM
It's just me, but I'd have priced it at something esoteric like €1,299 because that converts to 19,456.16 ZAR (South African Rand) -- 1945-6-16 was the date of the first known human-created atomic explosion.

If I had a surplus of funds, I'd buy four of these and put leds in them that change color and use them as a clock (white=0, red=1, green=2, etc.). "Oh, look, it's already red, green, blue, yellow -- we're going to be late if we're going to get there by white, red, white, white."

It'd be my own version of an atomic clock.
Posted by Phideaux on 03/03/14 at 04:42 PM
It is kind of cool looking. Colored lights would make it even cooler. But not for that price.
Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 03/03/14 at 05:11 PM
@Alex: Yup, and it looks like the site is smart enough to pull out the IP and display the local ducats. Interesting, however, that it's $300 more expensive for me! (Nothing new.)
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 03/03/14 at 11:32 PM
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