UFO: Magnetic Base Lamp
Employing magnetism technology, the UFO Lamp from Baita Design is an unconventional lighting that as its name suggest levitates in the air to illuminate your living place. Encasing a lens made in ABS plastic, bulb and magnets in an aluminum dome, the UFO Lamp works in tandem with a stainless steel base that also houses magnets and electronics. Featuring foot controlled buttons, including power, up, down and polarity inversion, the lamp floats above the magnetic base to set the mood with its magnetizing elucidation.
Source: Thedesignblog.org
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[...] UFO: Magnetic Base Lamp [...]
It’s a neat concept, although quite frankly we simply don’t have the technology to actually produce anything like that. Even if the lamp was made out of very light materials it would still take a tremendous amount of electromagnetic energy to keep it levitated that far up off the ground. Said electromagnet would consume a rather incredible amount of power, would wreck your credit cards and any other form of magnetic based media, as well as interfere with a whole range of wireless and radio signals.
You ~might~ be able to produce a scaled down version, with a weak LED based light source and then have it just hover a couple inches at most above the base. Even with a simple design like that though there are going to be a whole variety of problems to work through, not the least of which will be finding a way of keeping it *OVER* the base. Breath the wrong way and your light could easily tip right over the edge of the magnetic field and fall off onto your desk.
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