Bioluminescent lamp with luminous bacteria inside

Amsterdam designer Teresa von Dongen invented to place microorganisms that glow in the dark in a transparent tube with artificial sea water, and students at the Delft Technical University provided it with the microorganisms needed: photo-materials found in nature in a certain octopus, allowing it to glow in the dark. The resulting lamp was called Ambio . To she began to glow, it is enough to swing:



Now students are working to increase the life expectancy of bacteria for a possible second generation of this lamp.

On the author's site the lamp is positioned as entertainment - they say, you can hang it over a baby's cradle. But, if working with microbes goes well, then the invention will have more useful applications - for example, to illuminate objects in places where wires are too expensive or meaningless, it is inconvenient to change batteries, and sunlight is not enough to use fluorescent paint, i.e. . deep under the water - where nature has ordered these bacteria to live.
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