A University of Queensland student has built a lightbulb that does two things a little outside the lightbulb norm - first, it levitates. Secondly, it is powered without wires.
The system is designed for 24/7 operation, and the creator, Chris Rieger, is planning to pull some kits together in case you want to put one together yourself without the trial-and-error Chris went through to make this first prototype.
"This project came to life when i saw Jeff Lieberman's implementation of it a few months before starting," he writes.
"I was fascinated and started research on building my own, reading many academic papers and spending long nights reading up on pretty much every project which included wireless power transfer or magnetic leviation. What I found is that there are many many existing projects of both, but only a few have combined both these technologies. Once you have both working it's really just a matter of overlaying them. The high frequency magnetic field generated from the wireless power transfer circuit does not effect the leviation aspect of the build."
Check out more about the build and some extra photography over here.
