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We need lamps everywhere, in the rooms, in the cars, in dark streets…Point is that too much fuel has been consumed to power the lamps, and we do need to find some alternatives for coal and electricity. According to a scientific breakthrough made by scientists from Yansei and Stanford university earlier this year, algae can produce electrical current during photosynthesis. So Mike Thompson created a hanging lamp that uses living algae as its power source.

The latro lamp will start to produce energy when placed in the sunshine and filled with carbon dioxide and water.

All the energy produced during the photosynthesis is stored in a battery.

Designer: Mike Thompson