Remember these damn things?

What I remember most about them is that they were extremely effective as unintentional bug zappers. The SMELL of instantly vaporized burnt moths in the room is something I'll likely never forget.

I had one of these! I want to say it was purchased in the late 90s and lasted until around 2006 before I finally threw it in the garbage lol! They definitely were not stable and once it fell over the bulb would usually break around 50% of the time... Also once it fell over or even if it just got moved a little bit all the parts that screwed together would get loose and the lamp would stand crooked and wobble until you tightened it all back up again!

These are awesome still. Replace the halogen bulb with an LED and you’re all set?

I still use one of these

The candle that burns twice as bright will burn your fucking house down

They also put out a huge amount of heat ! Quite useful in old high rise flats !

I don't know when this started but most bedrooms don't even have a ceiling light anymore, so you still need these floor lamps.

I used to put my socks on these as a kid cause it'd warm them up. I ended up forgetting them one day and there was a fucking roaring fire coming out of the top of the bowl within minutes.

Girl I was dating in the mid 2000’s was sleeping with one of these lamps in her dorm room. One of those desks on the floor and bed up top bunkbed setups and her pillow fell onto the bulb needless to say the pillow got really nicely burnt. Luckly it didn’t catch fire

These would be much easier to do with LEDs but somehow they didn't survive the transition.

Those things have been around since the 60s

I swapped mine for an LED-equivalent bulb.

I still have one lol

I've still got one, but I converted the bulb to the equivalent of a 100w LED.

I had one of those in my bedroom all the way until about 2021.

Doubles as fly killer. Remember hearing a couple zap on that fucking food service light

Occasionally a bug or a Nerf dart would end up in ours and you'd smell a gross burnt aroma 😅

Older gen Z here, I remember these really strongly.
People always forget gen Z was alive for these kind of things and I'm starting to think nobody realizes how old we actually are. Most people you think of as gen Z are only really on the younger end of gen Z. Some of us are in our late 20s now and also struggling to understand kids these days.

I almost burned a neighbors house down by forgetting about a piece of cloth I put on that badboy for mood lighting.

They also drew about as much current as a hairdryer. (Kidding - it was closer to a desktop PC, though.)

They also made great pretend/play jousting lances, though all the insects that were dead inside of it would get all over the place as you swung those things around, but still, good times (at least until you got caught doing that).

And changing the bulb on one of those that newly burned out was like trying to work with lava.

I miss mine. They were awesome. Just don't touch the bulb when installing it.

I saw one of the bulbs burn out once, four inch flames straight out of the top.

Remember? I still have it!

My sister and I once caught a paper airplane on fire from one of these, got scortchmarks on the couch under it

If you look up The Sharper Image in an encyclopedia, it has a picture of this lamp and a vibrating pillow.

Well i walked over to the other room to check but mine doesn’t have that bulb/disk on the pole

I still have one

Never had one. Didn't know anyone who had one. Is this an American thing?

I'm pretty sure the lamp my parents had in the late 90s/early 2000s was the one they moved into the house with in the late 70s, there was none of this fanciness in our house

I do not. I lived in a house that had ceiling lights and chandeliers in every room, so we didn't have any lamps other than a couple desk lamps.

I remember it being a PITFA to change the bulbs, though. Two of the chandeliers were in awful places. 1 was at the top of the central ceiling which was essentially 3 stories from the floor and the other was directly over the stairs, where you couldn't really position a ladder safely.

I had two of them!

I have two of these, they stopped working but I can’t bring myself to throw them away.