Designer Mike Thompson Creates Lamp Powered By Blood

If Count Dracula needed a flashlight, he certainly would grab one of these things. Scenario designer, and seemingly a junior sociologist, Mike Thompson has documented an environmental and social experiment to measure the value of generated power. The idea behind Mike’s creation is to bring some added value and realization to an individual in terms of wasted energy. He states that the average American consumes about 3383kwh of energy per year. That is equal to leaving a light on in four rooms for a full year. It is the luxury and ignorance of being able to flick a switch and “produce” light that makes us ultimately waste energy. In doing this we do not give a single thought to how this is effecting the environment, nor do we consider the method(s) it may take to give us this light. To put a bit more emphasis and realization on the entire process Mike has created the Blood Lamp. For the lamp to produce light one must break off the top of the lamp, dissolve a tablet in the solution and use their blood to power the light. This creates a lamp that can only be used once and forces the user to consider the most important time that they need the light. It forces them to be more considerate and reflect of how wasteful we are with energy on a daily basis. There is also a deep metaphor in this as well where the blood in our bodies represents life and the energy we use everyday effects the world we live in somehow someway, thus effecting our quality of life. See, everything is cyclical. Check out Mike’s very interesting portfolio of work here.

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Posted by Joey Babs | Sep 18, 2009

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Tudza White | Sep 19, 2009 at 6:38 pm

Umm, neat idea but you won't see me bleeding into it just for fun.

mike73 | Sep 21, 2009 at 4:29 am

Very cool. Too bad it's overshadowed by all your pretentious comments about taking energy for granted.

Chris | Sep 21, 2009 at 5:34 am

Ummm…. is it actually possible? Let's hear about the chemical reactions and such. Otherwise, if not…. I propose that we all start aging backwards… alla Karl Pilkerton from the Ricky Gervais Show… “You're talking absolute sh*t!”. Pointless… you didn't design anything you're just daydreaming.

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agnostichef | Sep 21, 2009 at 5:23 pm

Yeah, how does it work. It looks cool but I am more interested in the how and why, then yelling at us about human waste…

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Name | Oct 7, 2009 at 12:03 am

the chemical is probably luminol, used for luminescence in a lot of forensic applications

James | Nov 9, 2009 at 6:42 pm

I'd agree with the foreshadowing aspect of it. You can't throw pearls before swine. Everybody is more interested in their devious destructive ways. Going to work, coming home, taking 20 minute showers when it takes approx. 3 minutes to clean yourselves. Some like to leave their radios or televisions playing all night long while they sleep – cause that can't fall asleep without them being on. If the world were to have another Jesus… history would repeat itself; not because he claims to be the messiah… he would just have to hold us responsible for climate change. This would have been really funny had he'd had talked about it's use for EMO kids at RAVE parties.

DoctorJim | Nov 24, 2009 at 10:02 am

Very interesting, but I guess it is known that the human body hides an army of strange things, and it is said that the human is the only one who can generate infinite energy only if he would find out how to do that.Chemistry is very interesting as physics and other fields of science every each and one has their fabulous attraction.

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ghostintheshadow | Dec 7, 2009 at 5:33 pm

Never said it had to be your blood. =D

ghostintheshadow | Dec 8, 2009 at 1:33 am

Never said it had to be your blood. =D

bronze_pendant_lights | Dec 12, 2009 at 12:53 pm

That’s the great article! I just pass ‘n read it, two thumbs up!