It’s about time we had a sexy, geek gadget back on the front page of Forever Geek and I’ve found a stunner: The Laserpod.

Advertised as the “21st Century Version of the Lava Lamp”, the Laserpod is a desktop lamp that splits three laser and three high-intensity blue and ultraviolet LED light sources before projecting them through a hand-cut faceted crystal to create some of the most unique and beautiful ambient lighting you’ve ever seen.

By default the Laserpod will cast it’s mesmerizing and organic lighting display up to your ceiling and around your room. The changing patterns, colors and textures that are projected are simultaneously alien and soothing. Not alien in the Space-Marine eating variety, alien in the otherwordly moonscape variety.

You can even interact with Laserpod by placing on top anything optical. Glass, crystal or clear plastics will produce the most profoundly beautiful effects that will continually evolve in time. For the best Laserpod experience, the device should be activated in complete darkness when the subtler, more meditative and organic beams will be seen - these are quite extraordinary and are unique to Laserpod.

The Laserpod is a patented invention of the innovative UK light artist Chris Levine, whose varied and ground breaking work in light has ranged from light sculptures for the band Massive Attack and some of the leading edge fashion designers, to an historic hologram portrait of the Queen of England. His work is about the experience of seeing and the living power of light, an ethos that is distilled into Laserpod.

At $100 it’s an expensive desk lamp. But if mind-blowing psychodelic lighting is your thing (and isn’t it everybody’s?), this is surely the ultimate example of the genre.