Comments on: UFO: Magnetic Base Lamp http://fgadgets.com/future-gadgets/ufo-magnetic-base-lamp Future Technology, Innovations, Futuristic Gadgets Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:31:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Onideus Mad Hatter http://fgadgets.com/future-gadgets/ufo-magnetic-base-lamp/comment-page-1#comment-50 Onideus Mad Hatter Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:31:15 +0000 http://fgadgets.com/?p=661#comment-50 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. 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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