Fifteen-year-old John Duffy, our youngest gadget freak to date, was inspired by an article on LED lanterns he found in a magazine. When he first saw the article, he thought the lanterns could be used only once, since they were glued shut. Before he found out the lanterns could actually be opened, he came up with a solution of his own: a wirelessly charged lantern.
Duffy created an indestructible LED lantern that can be recharged without opening its hard PVC shell. You could line a walk with these touch lanterns and not worry about someone stepping on them. If that happens, they will continue to work just fine.
John Duffy's indestructible LED lantern can be charged wirelessly.
The lantern can be made almost totally indestructible if you use extra epoxy before adding the second cap.
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Foxzzy, I cannot seem to open the link properly. I get an error page. I'd like to see another design for ideas, and mostly to make sure I'm not infringing on it.
Thanks very much, Rob. I appreciate it very much. And like I said, all of us at Make are fans of DesignNews.
And my apologies to John! Your project and video are terrific. I like the way you took an existing project and improved upon it. Congratulations. -- Mark
Good point, Zenock. The oversight was mine. As a former small magazine publisher, I should be more atuned to giving credit where credit is due. I could blame deadlines for numbing the brain, but really there is no excuse. I'll remember this going forward.
The interesting thing about John's project is that it wasn't insprired by anything on the Internet, but rather by a print magazine, Make magazine to be exact.
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