Get This: Blood Lamp, The Lamp That Hurts You

Blood Lamp is a new project from designer Mike Thompson.  It is supposed to make users think twice about how much energy they waste by exacting a bodily fee every time they turn it on:

For the lamp to work one breaks the top off, dissolves the tablet, and uses their own blood to power a simple light. By creating a lamp that can only be used once, the user must consider when light is needed the most, forcing them to rethink how wasteful they are with energy, and how precious it is.

Indeed, it would probably work so well that I would never turn it on.  But then I would throw it away and buy a different lamp that did not try to maim me every time I wanted to see stuff in the dark.  It would probably be a net wash, environment-wise.  Another pic, ATJ.  

Next up for Mike Thompson: a washing machine that urinates on your clothes, a knife that only works when you stab yourself, a shower rack that tells you you’re worthless, and, of course, Murder CouchTM.

Source: Mike Thompson via Gizmodo.