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This LED lamp is powered by your phone line
Sick of high electricity bills? Well, you know that the phone company is sending a bit of energy through their lines to power phones, right? Why not use that to your own sneaky advantage?
This LED lamp plugs in not to an electrical outlet, but to a phone jack. It then uses that power to light up, giving you a light you can feel guilt-free about leaving on all day. Your phone company might not love it, but whatever. They're the phone company.
By SonicRush at 2:11 PM ON 11/06/09
That's an awesome concept. I wish I had thought of something like that a few years ago when Hurricane Wilma tore through South Florida. We had no power, but we did have land line phone service. It would have been cool using the phone line to power lights or other things that require minimal power. Hmmm... a whole new industry could open up with this invention (emergency lighting & services in the event of power outages).
Am I crazy, or could this happen?
Awesome!
By Neotyguy40 at 2:23 PM ON 11/06/09
What happens after we change to voip?
By sonicrush at 3:28 PM ON 11/06/09
Then we start to harvest power from our coax cable TV line. or we start harvesting power from our own bodies like a epidermal USB port. LOL
By makmegs at 8:03 AM ON 11/08/09
MASSIVE LOL soni :P
In the event of a power loss, it would be easier to use a hand crank torch or those shakey things
By Korben at 11:17 PM ON 11/08/09
Part 68 of the US Federal Communications Commission's telecommunications regulations states that any device that connects to the phone line and is not actively communicating must present a resistance of at least 5 MΩ. Anything that draws a significant amount of current from the phone jack has the potential to disrupt landline communications for users in the vicinity.
Telcos have equipment to monitor this stuff. Don't be stupid.
on your cellphone!
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