On 12/23/2016 9:15 PM, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 12/23/2016 01:49 PM, James Wilkinson Sword wrote:

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Floor lamps have foot-activated switches. Table lamps have a switch on
the cord or next to the bulb, or the fancy ones you touch the base and
it detects you by capacitance.

I've never seen a lamp with a foot switch. Most lamps (floor or table,
doesn't matter) I see have a switch built into the socket. I do have a
couple of touch lamps, including one that "touches" itself.

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Bought a new floor lamp about 12 years ago. Foot switch with dimmer.
First time I saw one