Ah, and oldie but a goodie. I remember reading about the glowing pickle experiment back in the day in Penn and teller’s book “How to Play with your food…

Boing boing did a thing on it back in 2006. You just hook up straight ac current to probes in the pickle, and the brine and pickle flesh does the rest. Scary stuff really.

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/31/howto-make-a-glowing.html

I wonder if you could make pickle lighting more efficient with some kind of brine enclosure and something like a lime-light arc lamp setup… or would that just cause the pickle to explode? Either way, lots of fun. Oh and because it’s lacking today.. Arduino FTW!

thank god he dosent call them led’s…they should have kept OELD as the name it’s less confusing for people.

i prefer the hot dog and LED method
http://www.evilmadscientist.com/article.php/hotdogs

@T&P: You do know that technology moves forward, right? Do you think someone just pooped out a perfect CRT without drawbacks on the first try? Hell they didn’t even have more than one colour back then.

Neat demonstration. I may yet make my gridded relish-based matrix CRT. good times…

Firefly.

E.T. missing a finger?

@samurai .. LEP is already used. It stands for light emitting polymer. It is actually just another name for OLED, as the polymer is organic.

@f8l_0e:

Then LEP it is!