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Thursday 11 September 2014

Plankton Makes This Dinosaur Toy Glow, Batteries Not Required

Plankton Makes This Dinosaur Toy Glow, Batteries Not Required


As the story goes, the folks at BioPop were trying to make a sustainable light that relied on something other than man-made batteries. They tried using a bioluminescent plankton called dinoflagellates, but the tiny creatures required too much intervention to be a practical light source. They would, however, make for a really neat desk toy, and so the aptly-named Dino Pet was born.


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