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Mini Metropolis Bulb: Light Your Room With Softly Glowing Skyscrapers
Finding similarities between how penguins huddle together for warmth and humans create giant crowded cities, artist David Graas created this complex lightbulb that looks like a tiny metropolis is exploding from its glowing core.
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Those Lightsabre Chopsticks Now Light-Up
If you thought nothing could ever top those Star Wars-themed chopsticks that looked exactly like miniature lightsabres, you’re about to have your mind blown wide open again. Because thanks to improvements in miniature LED and battery technology, those lightsabre chopsticks now feature a glowing blade.
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This Simple Paper Torch Folds As Flat As A Bookmark
LEDs are not only incredibly energy-efficient, but they’re also small enough to be squeezed into the tiniest of gadgets. Or in the case of the Lite Lite, a simple piece of paper that folds into a working torch.
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Scientists Create 230% Efficient LED Bulbs
Light bulbs have always required more electricity than they need to produce light because the energy conversion process — changing electricity to light — was inefficient. But an MIT research team has just shown that an LED can actually give off more light than it consumes in electricity.