Tech Article 12/1

In an effort to embrace a truly natural approach to lighting,Philips took a cue from fireflies and deep-sea creatures to create a (literally) green light powered not by electricity or sunlight, but by glowing bacteria.Philips tasked itself with creating a lighting system driven by the wastes typically generated in the average home. To feed the bacteria housed in the bio-light's unusual hand-blown glass compartments, methane - which could generated by the MH kitchen's bio-digester unit from kitchen vegetable waste - is piped in through thin silicon tubes connected to a reservoir at the base.