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Via Colassal, comes this amazing advert for the high-speed internet service au Hikari, and builds an entire Rube Goldberg machine powered by nothing more than a beam of light. Along the way it melts ice, pops balloons, and burns strings. Incredible.

Finally, I’m back off the road and can do things like post for my many one reader. Today’s cool lamp comes from Dutch designer Teresa van Dongen, who designed a lamp that she calls Ambio that uses a species of bioluminescent bacteria in the genus Photobacterium, which she has isolated from octopodes1. She writes on her site that she was inspired by the way these organisms emit light in seawater in response to the motion of waves, and the results are certainly magical: The lamp consists of a tube filled with “Artificial Seawater Medium” (Saltwater?) balanced with a weight on the other end. In order to make the lamp “light up”, one has to give it a little push to… Read More »Cool Lamp Monday – Bioluminescence