Above the brand new MATHMOS Bump Lantern - click on the image above for more information

Edward Craven-Walker first saw the beginnings of the idea that became the Lava-lamp in a pub in Dorset. It was an egg timer in which a blob of liquid rose when the egg was ready. Mr Walker then spent years developing a formula for a lamp based on this principal. The lava lam or "Astro lamp" as it was then called captured the public's imagination and became one of the definning products of the 1960's.