Levitating Lightbulb.

[wolven7]

'This kinetic sculpture by Jeff Lieberman featured at this year's Sonar festival in Barcelona, and its creator proudly admits it is directly inspired by the thinking of FT's favourite neglected genius Nikolai Tesla. The bulb is levitated by electromagnetic feedback, and uses wireless power transfer to light itself up. Amazingly this set up uses less than half the power than a directly powered bulb.'

If you would like to continue to joke about my "hetero-man-crush" on Nikola Tesla, think about this, first.

Comments

[hametsunosaturn.livejournal.com]

FAN-TASTIC!

WHERE ... are my flying cars?

Last night, when Spaceballs was on, Princess Vespa was driving a 2001 SPACE Cadillac.

Well, it's 2007. WHERE are my flying cars?

Also, nifty new phrase: hetero-flexible. :P

[sean-mcgyvern.livejournal.com]

Very nifty.

Perhaps you would be interested in this?

Only 2 left!

[moonandserpent.livejournal.com]

The only ones who need joked about are the ones who do not love Tesla. My love for him is pure and boundless.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Anti-gravitation tech of that magnitude is still a few years off. And flying cars will just cause horrible sky collisions, anywho. I want the ability to fly, with as little external aid as possible.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I WOULD be interested, bu i don't have the cash, at the moment. :\

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear.

[hametsunosaturn.livejournal.com]

Yeah, flying would be cool, too... If I can't have flying cars.


Teleportation, on the other hand, probably won't happen. Firefox doesn't even have the word in it's dictionary. Sad!

[wolven.livejournal.com]

I don't know... It may well happen, but it may also raise some really scary problems about personal identity, in the process...

[hametsunosaturn.livejournal.com]

Well, see, if you watch the documentary "How William Shatner Changed The World" you'd learn that there's this problem, see, where you can only know either
a) exactly where an atom is at any given moment, or
b) exactly what an atom is doing at any given moment.

You cannot find both at the same time. And if you can't know both, you can't move one from one place to another and put it back precisely as it is meant to be. It's got some name, this problem, and so far has no solution. Until they figure out a solution, there can't be teleportation.

[hametsunosaturn.livejournal.com]

...taking a moment to "lol" at how unscientific that whole post sounded...

/moment

[wolven.livejournal.com]

That'd be the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, but they found (http://www.research.ibm.com/quantuminfo/teleportation/) some ways (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation) around that (http://www.newscientist.com/channel/fundamentals/mg19426085.800-teleportation-but-not-as-we-know-it.html).

You don't have to know and, in fact, it's better if you don't. That way, the wave never collapses, until it's observed on the other side. It's brilliant, really.

[wolven.livejournal.com]

Heheh. Yeah, we all have our days. :)