Lamp with glowing bioluminescent bacteria inside

Amsterdam designer Therese von Dongen came up to put the microorganisms that glow in the dark, in a transparent tube with artificial sea water, and the Delft University of Technology students have provided her own need microorganisms: fotobateriyami, found naturally in certain species of octopus, allowing it to glow in the dark. The resulting lamp called Ambio . She began to glow, it is enough to swing:

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

The site author lamp positioned as entertainment - they say that you can hang over the cradle of the baby. But when working with microbes goes successfully, then there will ischobreteniyu and more useful application - for example, to illuminate objects in places where wires pull expensive or pointless, batteries me uncomfortable, and sunlight to make use of a fluorescent dye, is not enough, ie . deep water - where nature and ordered these bacteria live.

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