.....enlightening
Levitating wirelessly powered lightbulbs!
Jeff Lieberman, MIT PhD student showed off this beaut recently, and posted about it on his website. he invented a lightbulb that gets its juice wirelessly... not only that, but as you can see, the lightbulb levitates(!) As he explains on his website (which has some groovy movies about the experiments); "Lightbulb explores two phenomena I find interesting, the stabilization of unstable systems using feedback, and wireless power transmission. Feedback systems often levitate objects, stabilize inverted pendulums, and the like. Wireless power transmission has been around since Tesla's invention a century ago, although it is still not widely utilized. I wanted to explore these effects together." I think it's a great first exploration! Check out the movies as the text is a little techy.... not only is this waykewl-- the implications of these experiments are far reaching....
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