{"id":38977,"date":"2011-11-29T09:25:35","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T07:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=38977"},"modified":"2011-11-29T09:57:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T07:57:16","slug":"philips-shows-off-bio-light-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/38977-philips-shows-off-bio-light-concept.html","title":{"rendered":"Philips shows off bio-light concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest concept to come out of the <a title=\"Philips\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/368168-Philips\">Philips<\/a> Microbial Home project is a natural lighting system based on biological processes that use bacteria to provide green ambient lighting.<\/p>\n<p>The system uses bioluminescent bacteria that feeds on methane gas and composted material to produce soft green light, similar to light emitted by fireflies and red tide.<\/p>\n<p>Hand blown glass cells house the bacteria, and are connected to a \u201cfood source\u201d at the base of the unit through silicon tubes. The \u201cfood source\u201d is methane gas, which is converted from solid bathroom waste and vegetable trimmings.<\/p>\n<p>The light will remain on as long as there is a supply of nutrients; however the light itself is not bright enough to illuminate an entire room. Philips instead sees the bio-light as an ambient light source, and say that real world applications could include night time road markings, as well as warning strips for planes and stairs.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-17938_105-57332431-1\/philips-bio-light-creates-mood-lighting-with-bacteria\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_38993\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/quick-news\/38977-philips-shows-off-bio-light-concept.html\/attachment\/philips-bio-light\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38993\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38993\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38993\" title=\"Philips bio light concept\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Philips-bio-light.jpg\" alt=\"Philips bio light concept\" width=\"610\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Philips-bio-light.jpg 610w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Philips-bio-light-100x66.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Philips-bio-light-185x123.jpg 185w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-38993\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philips bio light concept<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philips has revealed a concept that uses bacteria to power ambient lighting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":38693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[7025,7027,4400,7023],"class_list":["post-38977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-bacteria","tag-bio-light","tag-philips","tag-philips-microbial-home-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38979,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38977\/revisions\/38979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}