Gross Science: Blood Lamp!

Are you out of electricity but still need some kind of reading light in order to finish your copy of the complete Twilight series? Then you?re going to love our next item: The Lamp That Runs On Human Blood!

The lamp? [via Boing Boing] [LINK: ] is easy to use! All you need to do is break off the top, drop a bit of your delicious human blood inside, and watch this thing glow. Here?s a full breakdown and instructional video on the official website. Downsides: (1) It can only be used once; (2) It?s some kind of artistic symbol for the amount of energy that humans waste, or some nonsense like that. But, still:

Blood Lamp!

(By the way, if someone hasn?t filed a copyright for that movie title ?The Lamp That Runs On Human Blood? yet, go ahead and consider it already taken by yours truly. I?m no lawyer, but I believe web postings are legally binding at this point. No need to look it up. Trust me.)