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 ...

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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., ...

A British company hopes to bring electric light to 1.5billion people who live off the grid with an incredible electric light that is powered by gravity. The GravityLight uses a sack of sand to ...

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 ...

To wage their war on kerosene lamps and the perils the substance presents, partners Martin Riddiford and Jim Reeves have developed the GravityLight, an LED lamp that runs on gravity ― no electricity ...

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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 ...

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, ...