Technologies Inspired By Animals

Fireflies – LED Light Bulbs

We all have LED lights in our homes – these lights last longer than the traditional light bulb. But not many knows that the LED Bulbs (Thomas Edison invented the Light Bulbs) were inspired by small bugs that fly around with green light known as fireflies. Their unique ability to project light from their body help us evolve the old light bulb Edison invented.

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Researchers from Penn State University found that if we mimic the firefly’s microstructures ability to provide light into LED Lights, it improved the light distribution by almost 90%. Those small magical bugs light our modern world with their natural light microstructure.

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