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Given that Mathmos is in the UK, which is still part of the EU, at least last time I checked, how would they still be in business if bulbs suitable for lava-lam
by lotsofmangos 12y ago
Given that Mathmos is in the UK, which is still part of the EU, at least last time I checked, how would they still be in business if bulbs suitable for lava-lamps were banned?
http://www.mathmos.com/astro-lava-lamp-bulb.html http://www.mathmos.com/astro-lava-lamp-bulb.html
There was an EU law on incandescent bulbs, but it only applies to general purpose lighting bulbs without reflectors, not special purpose bulbs, heat lamps, industrial or automotive.
- bostik 12y agoI just realised something. The company name "Mathmos", according to the article, dates from 1992 or so. Lava lamp blobs were a pretty big backdrop item in Barbarella [0], released 1968. The place where the seething blobs were prominent? "Matmos." There has to be joke hidden in plain sight with the company name choice. [0]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062711/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062711/