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Astro Lava Lamp

What does this icon of the psychedelic era have to do with internet security?

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Remo Giuffré
Jul 27, 2025
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Astro Lava Lamp by Mathmos

In 1948, while in a Dorset pub, British accountant, movie maker, entrepreneur and (as it happens) naturist [Ed: nudie] Edward Craven-Walker noticed something on a stove top “made out of a cocktail-shaker, old tins, wax and things”. The cocktail shaker had been put into water alongside an egg and, as the water heated, the wax wo…

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