Hats off to Philips. The Dutch electronics giant is at the forefront of research into the products we'll all be using in the future.

Along the way, they've came up with LivingColors, a stunningly beautiful LED based lamp:

Its beautifully tough transparent surround is flat on the bottom to ensure the lamp is stable when placed on any flat surface.

The lamp uses 4 LEDs, two red, one blue, and one green . By increasing, reducing, brightening or dimming each LED they can produce over 16 million different colours!

The remote makes changing the settings extremely easy from anywhere in the room. It works on a radio frequency and not the typical infra-red that you find with most remotes. This means that there’s no need to point the remote towards the lamp. Not only that, you can also connect up to 6 LivingColors at any one time and they can by synchronized to all show the same colour. A great feature of the remote is that it remembers the last setting that you used, so you don’t need to reselect it, should you switch if off.