SOAP LAKE, Wash. – The Soap Lake City Council has reached agreement with Target Stores to move the company’s giant lava lamp from New York City’s Times Square to this central Washington town. Target ...

If you grew up pre-Y2K, chances are you’re familiar with the concept of a lava lamp. It’s much less likely that you’ve ever encountered a lamp made out of literal lava. That’s the basic description of ...

When Imre Jánosi’s teenage daughter asked him how her new lava lamp worked, she probably expected a quick explanation. But her innocent question sent Jánosi, a physicist at Loránd Eötvös University in ...

The lava lamp usually gets a bum rap as some kind of lowbrow psychedelic entertainment system for people who are too strung out to enjoy any stimulation of real substance. But the lazy loafing sources ...

If we got a mobile phone charm for every phone charm we ever saw, then we'd have a lot of phone charms. Most don't pass the Crave test, which is why you never hear about them. This one from Mathmos, ...

As a lover of lava lamps, [Julian Butler] knew when he saw a coworker’s modern LED incarnation of the classic piece of illuminated decor that he had to have one for himself. The only problem was that ...

It might more fittingly belong in wacky Fremont, but the people of tiny Soap Lake aren’t laughing. If the promoters have their way, those who drive along Highway 17 that cuts through the town will see ...