The Trap Light is a glass lamp that has had a photoluminescent pigment added. This allows the glass to ‘store’ light, allowing it to glow softly for hours after exposure to illumination, helping to fill a room with a magical glow.

The Trap Light has been created by Gionata Gatto and Mike Thompson, it has been designed to illuminate a room without the need for much electricity. The idea is to reuse the light energy, the glass is able to absorb the energy giving off by nearby sources like sunlight, CFL, Tube lights, or LEDs due to the photoluminescent pigments within the glass, these pigments then emit light as a glow without needing to consume any additional electricity.

Each Trap Light is hand blown using a Murano glass blowing technique, the body of the glass is embedded with photoluminescent pigments and the exact shape is produced due to the use of a wooden mould. The formed lamp is then surrounded by a cage like structure to help protect it. The lamps can be wired up to have a lightbulb within them, this would then provide the light to ‘charge’ the glass to allow it to glow. For greater freedom the lamps can be used without a bulb, this would mean no need to position near a plug socket, or to provide batteries, just ensure that the lamp would receive illumination from other nearby light sources.

The Trap Light is thought to only require around 30 minutes of light to ‘charge’ and from this it could produce a warming glow for up to 8 hours (dependent on the strength of light it had access to before hand). This would allow you to be able to leave lights turned off for greater amounts of time, saving on electricity bills, while producing a magical effect in your room. The light would be useful for children, emitting a comforting glow after lights have been turned out at night, without needing to leave a nightlight running all night. The Trap light is a enchanting way to ‘reuse’ light energy helping to help bring down energy bills.

Source: iGreenSpot

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About a month ago, I was contacted by Tim LeMaster regarding the After-Lite product. The After-Lite is essentially a plastic-based disc that fits to the bottom of an energy-saving light bulb. When you have your lights on, the disc “charges up”. When you switch your lights off, the After-Lite disc carries on glowing, giving you free light!

Tim is a professional inventor, and has been so for 25 years. As an expert in photo luminescent technology, he’s been working on a range of innovative safety products for low light and dark conditions. To put it in context, Tim’s company FOTOLum developed the photo-luminescent vinyl patches that the New York City Fire Department wear on their uniforms… as a matter of their department safety policy!

The After-Lite uses what Tim calls a Crystal Energy Cell. The cell (or disc) can charge up in just a few minutes, and gives enough light to easily see what you’re doing in a room. Tim sent me some of these discs to play with, and they’re a really interesting eco-friendly gadget! The cells are designed for US style energy saving light bulbs, but after a little bit of tweaking, I got them to neatly fit a modern UK style light bulb.

I personally found that the cells charge up in just a few minutes, and will carry on glowing for several hours. Although the light output decreases with time (as you’d expect with anything that glows in the dark), I found that the cells were still glowing about 10 hours later.

The After-Lite is not designed to replace bulbs, it’s merely offered as supplement your lighting. If there are situations when there’s a sudden power cut, the cells will just glow and offer a simple to install emergency light source.

Another use for this product is as a child’s night light. Since young children are often afraid of the dark, and rather than keep your lights on overnight, the After-Lite cell will start glowing as soon as the light is switched off. This glowing light should be plenty enough to give a child peace of mind, and it doesn’t cost a single penny in energy!

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