Gravity Lamp Grabs Green Prize

eldavojohn writes "A lamp powered by gravity has won the second prize at the Greener Gadgets Conference in NYC. From the article, "The light output will be 600-800 lumens — roughly equal to a 40-watt incandescent bulb over a period of four hours. To "turn on" the lamp, the user moves weights from the bottom to the top of the lamp. An hour glass-like mechanism is turned over and the weights are placed in the mass sled near the top of the lamp. The sled begins its gentle glide back down and, within a few seconds, the LEDs come on and light the lamp ... Moulton estimates that Gravia's mechanisms will last more than 200 years, if used eight hours a day, 365 days a year." The article contains links to the patents and the designer/inventor Clay Moulton's site." I think my laptop would require a slightly larger weight to pull this off.

Comments

Re:bwahaha.

[Profane MuthaFucka]

The device I use to raise the weight is powered by the bodies of tiny birds which have been mashed into a fine pulp, shoved into an acidic chemical processing device constructed of proteins, and then extruded into a bowl of water.

Re:Reading for everyone

[huckamania]

Gravia won second prize at the Greener Gadgets Design Competition, which was judged by representatives from Endgadget, IDEO & The Designers Accord, and Inhabitat. Which is more likely? A bunch of fucktarded engineers on slashdot figure out a major fraud by reading two dubious sources -OR- the judges from Endgadget, IDEO & The Designers Accord, and Inhabitat acutally tested the thing, saw it working and gave it the second prize at the Greener Gadgets Design Competition.

As fucktarded as you are, I can only but feel pity for your closed minded, egotism.