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Blood-Powered Lamp Makes You Bleed for Your Light

September 22nd, 2009 link to (permalink)

We often just assume that energy to power our TVs, computers, cell phones, and other electronics will always be readily available. But the earth’s resources are scarce – a reality that designer Mike Thompson wants to illustrate (somewhat painfully) with his blood-powered lamp.
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4 Responses to “Blood-Powered Lamp Makes You Bleed for Your Light”

  1. Anne Ominous Says:
    September 24th, 2009 at 8:30 am

    Or they can buy a candle, use it multiple times, not have to lose blood and use the money NOT spent on an idiotic idea like a one time use lamp on something more important.

  2. Julius Says:
    September 24th, 2009 at 8:36 am

    I was going to call you a kill joy, but then again wouldn’t that be exactly what someone dripping blood into a device for fun is.

  3. mitz Says:
    September 24th, 2009 at 10:07 am

    Come on guys, this is cool! It’s funky! It’s weird. What’s not to GeekLuv about this?

  4. Steven Mullaney Says:
    March 27th, 2010 at 5:31 pm

    What is that liquid? And what would happen if you injected it into your bloodstream?

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