At any rate, I broke away long enough this morning to submit a patent
for my new bioluminescent touchscreen display. This is going to be a
real game changer. It's a backlight system for handheld devices using
bioluminescent, dinoflagellate algae in a wafer-thin aqueous solution
grid. I've already pitched it to Apple. Jobs isn't returning my calls,
but that's just because he's mad at me again. I cleaned him out at
poker night last week.
Bioluminescence is the next logical step for energy-efficient lighting.
It's a travesty, really, that any of us continue to use incandescent
light bulbs, which are really just tiny little furnaces. You didn't
ask, but I'm telling you anyway: Regular bulbs light up when the thin
tungsten filament inside becomes overwhelmed by the electricity being
passed through it, and incandesces into a white hot state. All that
heat is wasted electricity, since what we want out of a light bulb is
light, not heat. Fluorescent lights are at least a step in the right direction -- around five times as
efficient, in terms of electrical wattage. An incandescent bulb
produces about 15 lumens (a unit of measuring light) per watt. A
fluorescent light: 60 to 100 lumens per watt.
My touchscreen display is just the beginning. I'm working right now on
a prototype bioluminescent lamp that's going to knock your socks off.
More updates as events warrant.
Double Secret Bonus Puzzle: Check out the picture below. Can you guess
what it is? Hint: The U.S. goes through about 2 million every five
minutes. Click here to find out (via ElectroPlankton).
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