Oct 4 2009Don't Tell The Robots!: Blood Powered Lamp
Awesome, a lamp powered by human blood. Because this will end well.
What if, every time you wanted to switch on a light, you had to bleed? Would you think twice before illuminating the room, and in turn, using up energy?
That's the idea behind the blood lamp, invented by Mike Thomspon, an English designer based in The Netherlands. The lamp contains luminol - the same chemical forensic scientists use to check for traces of blood at a crime scence. Luminol reacts with the iron in red blood cells and creates a bright blue glow. To use the lamp, you first need to mix in an activating powder. Then, you break the glass, cut yourself, and drip blood into the opening.
And this, my friends, is how our robotic overlords will read their Kindles at night. And I'll be damned if I become some robot's lamp juice. You hear me?! You will never take my blood! Quick, Edward, bite me! DO IT NOW, NANCY! *swoon* God I love your hair.
Lamp Runs On Human Blood [livescience]
Thanks to Dustin, who has never kissed a vampire (he didn't like).
Reader Comments
1. I ♥ SPAM - October 4, 2009 4:33 PM
I ♥ MY SISTER
2. BloggerMike - October 4, 2009 4:35 PM
i suppose the one above me is first -.-
3. Latexxx - October 4, 2009 4:40 PM
i would totally buy one for the kickass factor
4. PewPewPew - October 4, 2009 4:45 PM
Something tells me this is a really bad idea
And #1 likes spam if im not mistaken.
5. ECL1PS3 - October 4, 2009 4:49 PM
@4 you might have a point because what if someone is sleeping and the lamp somehow falls on the person's bed, and if the person is drinking it, he'll get AIDS lol
6. Iris - October 4, 2009 4:57 PM
I wonder if the inventor is emo and this is all a conspiracy to make us all emo?
7. Joshee - October 4, 2009 5:07 PM
@1
KILL YOURSELF OR WE'LL BE USING YOUR BLOOD FOR THAT GOD-FORSAKEN LAMP.
*Ahem*
yeah the lamps a BAAAAAADDD idea.
8. raggle fraggle - October 4, 2009 5:11 PM
@6 maybe the inventor just had a bunch of blood just laying around and didn't know what to do with it.
Maybe he and his friend were sitting around with a glass bulb of this stuff and his friend got angry and shoved the bulb into his head which gave him the idea (and made the bulb light up).
9. Lizzie - October 4, 2009 5:30 PM
is this a one time lamp??
this is a seriously bad idea, how much blood do you need for it to light up??
what if I don't want to scar myself for life just to have a little light?? this is effed up to the extreme!
10. altaria1993 - October 4, 2009 6:01 PM
@9
That is the idea behind it.
11. Squidly - October 4, 2009 6:08 PM
Now Emo's can read in the dark, AND feel the pain.
12. Angela - October 4, 2009 6:10 PM
I think in concept his idea is really awesome. It's not some attempt at emo-assimilation, it's to make people consider the true costs of the energy we consume. And if something like this sparks some legitimate debate, then all the better.
I think some people should more carefully read the little blurb, before they start making comments about how effed up it is (and chances are good they also have a few light switches at home they should consider turning off). The Geekologie writer should maybe do the same.
13. Anon - October 4, 2009 6:32 PM
Does it have to be human blood? If not, Pamela Anderson's gonna have a fit.
14. Deedlit - October 4, 2009 6:42 PM
No pain no gain haha
15. Dream - October 4, 2009 6:57 PM
Emo kids can light up our world while they go cry in the corner and cut themselves!
16. Droocy - October 4, 2009 7:07 PM
Besides pagans, who would this appeal to?
17. Haseo - October 4, 2009 7:32 PM
No, it's not a bad idea!
You know why?
Because it reacts with iron, and robots are made from iron, so you can use dead robots to power your lamp =3
[The problem about this is to kill the robot before it kill you]
18. Heather - October 4, 2009 8:42 PM
Dont think its gonna be a hot seller...
19. Jeff - October 4, 2009 9:50 PM
wow.. a will rogers reference
20. livingjetlag - October 4, 2009 10:04 PM
I guess I'll have to take my psycho ex-girlfriend back, now, so I can read at night by the soft blue glow of her self-mutilation. Mental health is over-rated.
21. MadMonkey - October 4, 2009 10:07 PM
Wow.
Envirotards are really reaching now...
22. Rawrs - October 4, 2009 10:58 PM
0.0 wow i find this amazingly brilliant. i would buy one just to have....
Also if i forget to pay my power bill and want friends over i can just throw this at them to light up my room 0.0! BRILLIANT!
23. JAsmine - October 4, 2009 11:40 PM
i've made luminol before in basic o-chem lab. anyone can make this. its what they use in crime scenes.
24. *sigh* - October 5, 2009 12:33 AM
You people are far too over judgemental of emo kids to just constantly spew out shit about how bad they are. Or they are just people who cry in the corner and cut themselves, because that is far from the truth. IF you actually took maybe 10minutes out of your life to get to know a person who was "emo" they are just like everybody else, they just see things differntly. I have 'emo' friends, and scene friends and all types of friends. And they are all the same.
(and yes I am aware that you downgrading emo kids is a troll)
25. Raab - October 5, 2009 3:14 AM
Its great to make you think that every time you turn on a light you use electricity and blood except that THIS DOES NOT USE ELECTRICITY! I would want to use power MORE so i didnt have to bleed to get this lamp to work.
26. cyberON - October 5, 2009 5:01 AM
Ladies that menstrual cycle CAN NOW MAKE YOU CASH!!!
27. dart - October 5, 2009 6:08 AM
I can avoid the self-mutilation by using my monitor as the sole source of light. (seriously, this thing could light a whole room. Ridiculously bright.)
It's an okayish idea/good statement, but I don't think anyone (bar the really, really hardcore environmentalists) would bother.
Besides, who needs blood-powered light bulbs when we have candles? They still exist for a reason.
28. ciao - October 5, 2009 8:34 AM
*feeed meeee Seymour *
29. Jaded Icon - October 5, 2009 9:32 AM
@ 12
Grow up hippie! And shave your pits.
@ 24
If you stop acting like a f*g, you'll get beat up less.
30. Hawk - October 5, 2009 10:51 AM
Kill all humans!
They make great lights!
31. Geekolojew - October 5, 2009 12:46 PM
Must See!!!
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32. Blastphemer - October 5, 2009 2:25 PM
One step closer to us all becoming batteries living in the matrix.
33. thisisonlyatest - October 5, 2009 4:39 PM
Too late... the robots already know.
Also, Luminol... (you know, from CSI) or so I've read on whatever site this is probably linked to. (TLDR)
I wonder how toxic the glow chemical is... Probably not very, but no one asked Bill Nye about it, so until then we won't know.
Lastly, this product is incredibly emo.
34. Scruff Mcgruff - October 5, 2009 4:59 PM
@1 i love your sister too. if ya catch mah drift eh eh...but then so did your father...mother..neighbor, um teachers, that one guy with all those STD's yeah i'm just glad i was her third :D
35. finfan - October 5, 2009 5:05 PM
@ 30, If you would move out of your mom's house instead of living in her basement and guzzling down her food like a dark hole from hell, Maybe you could get a girlfriend! ^-^ Oh and World of Warcraft is not real, don't worry they won't get you ;)
I wonder what would happen if you injected this substance into your blood stream...
36. Scruff Mcgruff - October 5, 2009 5:11 PM
@36 you would die glowing....duh
37. finfan - October 5, 2009 5:17 PM
At comment above... I'm not emo... But... That sounds sorta cool!
38. Jaded Icon - October 6, 2009 7:55 AM
@ 36
lol! That's great! That made me laugh really hard.
39. Variable - October 8, 2009 8:52 AM
Doesn't that stuff detect any bodily fluids? Wouldn't it be more practical to make a lamp powered by semen?
40. Amanda - October 9, 2009 10:45 AM
I don't see a point to this. Though the Emo cracks were rather funny, and the period blood crack was.. Well, from a woman's point of view, "Uh, wtf?" from a man's point of view, "Hooney, when's your period due~? 8D"
41. *sigh* - October 9, 2009 9:20 PM
Well damn, 36 you beat me to it. But a good reply at that you deserve a hug, I'd give it to you; but the swine flu and all. I love you though none-the-less
@30 you obviously didn't catch what was meant by the bundle of letters I put together to make words. Oh sorry, I guess you didn't pass the first grade. Let me make it simple for you. Y-O-U F-A-I-L. Still too tough? U P-H-A-I-L