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The touch lamp; a neat idea, and older than you'd think!17:24

The touch lamp; a neat idea, and older than you'd think!

1.8M views • 6 years ago
Technology Connections
Technology Connections explains how touch lamps work and traces them back through patents to the 1950s, far earlier than most people assume.
The lamps you're not allowed to have. Exploring the Dubai lamps32:17

The lamps you're not allowed to have. Exploring the Dubai lamps

6.6M views • 5 years ago
bigclivedotcom
Big Clive tears down the Dubai lamp, a Philips LED bulb developed with Dubai's ruler for maximum efficiency and long life. He examines its construction and circuitry, including underrun LEDs and many filament strips.
The Lava Lamps That Help Keep The Internet Secure3:59

The Lava Lamps That Help Keep The Internet Secure

4.3M views • 9 years ago
Tom Scott
Tom Scott visits Cloudflare's San Francisco office to show the wall of lava lamps whose camera feed is used as a source of entropy for random number generation. It is a short explainer on how this helps secure internet encryption.
How Wrong Is VERITASIUM? A Lamp and Power Line Story19:17

How Wrong Is VERITASIUM? A Lamp and Power Line Story

4.4M views • 4 years ago
ElectroBOOM
ElectroBOOM's Mehdi Sadaghdar responds to Veritasium's lamp-and-long-wire puzzle, analysing it as an electrical engineer. He covers where the original framing misleads and the role of stray capacitance.
The LED's Challenge to High Pressure Sodium21:40

The LED's Challenge to High Pressure Sodium

1.6M views • 8 years ago
Technology Connections
A Technology Connections video weighing LED streetlights against high pressure sodium lamps, covering efficiency, color, cost and light pollution. It is a follow-up to his earlier explanation of why street lights are orange.