23.06.12 - I was thinking about designing an Anglepoise lamp when I started playing around with this simple toy (above).  When you press in the base, the toy horse collapses, allowing you to play a great game with children, where you pretend to shoot the horse and it falls over as if dead.  What if I could reverse the mechanism so that my lamp could be incredibly flexible, allowing me to put it into any position, before I activated a cam, locking all it's joints rigidly in place.  I built my lamp and was ready to make the video, when I realised I needed a table to display it on, so I spent a day designing and making the one shown. Having made my prototype lamp, I know there's plenty of design improvements to be made.  Is it possible to improve on the functionality of the Anglepoise lamp?  Please watch the video below to see the result: