DeciWatt.org just raised $308,000 on IndieGoGo with its unbelievably resourceful Gravity Light invention. There are 14 days left in the crowdfunding campaign. The goal of this new product is to ...

Kozhikode: The age of solar lamps may soon be over. In their place, gravity lamps are coming and their commercial production will begin in Kerala soon. Gravity light is designed by a UK firm, Deciwatt ...

As part of a research initiative on how to harness off-grid energy for low-power electronics, a pair of U.K.-based designers created a lamp that uses gravity to generate light. Martin Riddiford, ...

February 20, 2008 It’s the environmentally friendly lamp with gravitas. Clay Moulton, a Virginia Tech student, has created a 58-inch tall floor lamp powered entirely by gravity. Gravia uses a slowly ...

If you are reading this, chances are, you are in the 1%. Globally, some 750 million people don’t have access to safe drinking water. 2.5 billion people don’t have access to basic sanitary conditions.

With most of us in the developed world more concerned about the flow of electricity to power our computers, TVs and all manner of other wonders of the modern age, it’s easy to forget the massive ...

The Greener Gadgets Conference has doled out a design award to a Virgina Tech student who proposes a lamp powered by gravity. The floor lamp has a 4-foot column, down which a weighted element slowly ...

BLACKSBURG, Va., Feb. 18 (UPI) -- A U.S. graduate student won second place in a "Greener Gadgets Conference" competition inventing a floor lamp powered by gravity. Clay Moulton of Springfield, Va., ...

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A gravity powered LED light has been introduced by the designers of GravityLight. This light produces its own energy by, you guessed it, gravity. A string on one side of the light is pulled, lifting a ...

This “Gravity” lamp from one of our favorite design houses Front is a concept design that detects when you enter and exit a room, perking up straight and shining brightly upon your arrival, and slowly ...

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