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The picture on the left is a lamp lit by gravity.  It is named “Gravia”.

This floor lamp was created by Clay Moulton, a Virginia Tech student.  The concept of Gravia is to move the weight in the lamp to allow the heavier weight goes on top, and let the weight slides down slowly.  This activate the lamp as the sliding mass spins a rotor, and the LEDs glows.  Other features of this lamp?  It is noise-free.  In other words, it works silently.  This device is also a really long-life one.  You can pass it to your children, grandchildren or even great grandchildren.  It is said that the mechanisms of Gravia can last more than 200 years (eight hours a day, 365 days a year).

Comparing to the switch, some lazy people might thinks that it’s very troublesome to move the lamp every certain period just to let it glow.  We can work on that, for example, making a device that turn the lamp after a certain time.

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Researchers from University of Sunderland created this infra-red helmet that can cure Alzheimer’s in 10 minutes a day.  The helmet used low power infra-red (1072nm), which will not harm you and can be worn under the sun (if you want to).  Dr Gordon Dougal claimed that the helmet can reverse the process of cell death and decline of organ, which will ultimately lead to memory enchanment, learning perfomance and ability.

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Scientists from Harvard has successfully map the brain by turning brain tissue into high-resolution neural maps.  The researchers have done this by using the new machine, automatic tape-collecting lathe ultramicrotome (ATLUM) machine.

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