• Long Distance Friendship Lamp
  • Long Distance Friendship Lamp
  • Long Distance Friendship Lamp
  • Long Distance Friendship Lamp
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Long Distance Friendship Lamp

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✅ A fun & creative gift idea

✅ Handmade Limited edition – 100% unique

✅ Eco-friendly & sustainable materials

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Light up loved ones' lives—across town or the whole country—with 2 or more of these in-sync lamps.
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  • What Makes It Uncommon

    Long Distance Love

    Light up a loved one's life—across town or across the country—with two or more of these in-sync lamps. When you turn one on with a simple touch of your hand, its mate emits the same ambient glow, no matter where it is and who is on the other end: Parent or grandparent, niece or nephew, or long-distance significant other. Each person sets up their lamp via Wi-Fi, then reaches out and touches the lamp whenever they want to let their loved one know they're thinking of them. With every touch, the lamp cycles through a rainbow of colors, one at a time. You can also assign each loved one a color so that when they tap their lamp, yours lights up with their special hue. (Our Friendship Frame works th esame way.) Designed by John Harrison and Vanessa Whalen. Assembled in Kansas.

    Learn how to set up your lamp.

    Made from

    electrical components, acrylic, led bulb, #7 other (o) plastic

    Measurements

    4.75" L x 4.75" W x 8" H

    Notes

    Sold individually or in pairs (make your choice in the pull-down quantity menu). Requires power (100-240V AC) and WPA, WPA2, WEP, or open Wi-Fi connection. Does not work with captive portals such as found at public Wi-Fi locations or with WPA Enterprise used in some academic and corporate environments.

    Requires a 2.4 GHz connection; does not work with a 5 GHz connection.

    Lamp illumination timer has a default setting to fade off in 1.5 hours but can be set to fade off in 30 minutes, 1.5 hours, 8 hours or 24 hours.

    One-step set-up requires access to your home router.

    PLEASE NOTE: This item is built to U.S. electronics specifications and may need additional modifications or converters to be used in countries other than the U.S. and Canada.

    Item ID

    43038

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    created by John Harrison and Vanessa Whalen

    “I see magic everywhere I look, but making something--then I get to touch the magic.”

    When John Harrison and Vanessa Whalen first met, John was Associate Professor of Violin at Wichita State University and Vanessa was a pianist accompanying his students. Instantly friends, they did not start dating until many years later. By then, John had developed a second career as an electrical and computer engineer and Vanessa was a psychotherapist in private practice. John proposed to Vanessa on Christmas morning 2014 and their first touch lamps were also gifted that year. The two built them in their basement to connect John's family members spread out across the US and Canada. John now works with nonprofits to assemble the lamps while contributing back to the community. By marrying Vanessa, John also gained two sons, Brendan and Sean. The family now enjoys a blended household of dogs, as well as a small school of goldfish. John and Vanessa also founded a startup which develops mobile apps for kids to help them learn about and manage their feelings.

    Visit the blog for a Q&A session with John that touches on the beauty of code, the power of capacitive sensing, and much, much more.

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