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Light Bulb With a Fly in it, is a light bulb which has a fly trapped
inside it. It's not a real fly of course, but it does buzz around
convincingly inside the bulb when the light is switched on.
This is because it's tethered to one end of a tiny wire, the other
end of which is attached to a
rotating disk at the base of the bulb.
The filament is protected from damage by an additional inner
glass dome.
When the light is turned on, the fly begins to randomly bash
around inside the bulb, casting weird flickering shadows. The
purpose of this is dubious, but then this is the halfbakery and
purposeless ideas make me happy.
[link]
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This idea is, if I may say, faultless. |
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What M'Lud Buchanan said. Real quality
halfbaking, well done. |
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Really, [8th], I don't stand on ceremony. "M'lud
Maxwell" will do fine. |
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When I was a young lad, I owned a lightbulb with which I used to amaze my friends. It had a removable Edison base, a double-A cell and a penlight lamp. |
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Shorting the center terminal to the threads with a hand-concealed bit of Al foil completed the circuit between the cell and the lamp, lighting the bulb. The removable base was to allow replacement of the AA cell and/or lamp. These days, it would make sense to replace the incandescent lamp with an LED. |
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I imagine this could be used to bake this magnificent idea, with a real or animated fly. Let me see if I can find a link! [link] |
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If someone had told me ten years ago that I'd be clicking a link reading "for" next to a small croissant next to words in bold saying "Light Bulb With a Fly in it", I would have thought they were crazy. |
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If someone had told me yesterday that I'd be clicking a link reading "for" next to a small croissant next to words in bold saying "Light Bulb With a Fly in it", I would have thought they were crazy. |
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If someone tells me tomorrow that I'd clicked a link reading "for" next to a small croissant next to words in bold saying "Light Bulb With a Fly in it", I will think they are crazy. |
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If someone had had me that he had had a Light Bulb With
a Fly in it, i would have thought he had been had. |
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//The purpose of this is dubious//
[marked-for-tagline] |
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I can't get the link to open.... and I'm really curious - what is it [csea]? |
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I live this idea because it basically sums up my entire
(vital) role here at the 'Bakery: the annoying fly buzzing
around the ceiling and bumping into things. You know, the
one that you can't get rid of? |
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This would drive Frisco mad! Yay. + |
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How can I not [+]? Brilliant Half Baking indeed, [xenzag]! |
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// what is it //
Much as described in my post (above.) From a magician's trick store. Introducing a live fly should be easy; implementing an artificial fly a bit more difficult. |
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Thanks to all for positive comments.... a piece of amber with an embedded single dinosaur pube is on its way to each and all. |
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How about spiders, [po] ? Would you like that ... ? |
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She says no, I said it for her. I'm allowed. She would
say no if she were still up. |
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[po] can stick up for herself, [blissy]. |
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What she _can't_ do, however, is stop us sticking up for her
anyway. No spiders, Borg! |
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Schadenfreude ? Who, nous ? |
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//How about spiders//
Spiders tend not to be phototropic. |
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