{"id":1285,"date":"2007-09-17T01:23:20","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T09:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/17\/turning-onoff-lamp-with-static-electricity\/"},"modified":"2007-09-17T01:23:23","modified_gmt":"2007-09-17T09:23:23","slug":"turning-onoff-lamp-with-static-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/17\/turning-onoff-lamp-with-static-electricity\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning On\/Off Lamp With Static Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So while sitting at my desk rubbing my feet against the rubber chair mat, I noticed I was building up static electricity. What&#8217;s even cooler is that when I touch my keyboard tray, it actually turns off my lamp. If I do it again, it turns the lamp back on. My lamp is one of those touch sensor type lamps where it turns on\/off just by touching it. However, I never knew electricity could flow through glass like that as I have a glass table. There are metallic parts, but the laptop itself isn&#8217;t touch anything metallic.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my little video demonstration (high and low resolutions respectively): <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.krunk4ever.com\/v\/Videos\/Turning-Lamp-On-and-Off-With-Static-Electricity.wmv.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.krunk4ever.com\/d\/15411-2\/Turning-Lamp-On-and-Off-With-Static-Electricity.jpg\" alt=\"Turning Lamp On and Off With Static Electricity - Large\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.krunk4ever.com\/v\/Videos\/Turning-Lamp-On-and-Off-With-Static-Electricity-small.wmv.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/gallery.krunk4ever.com\/d\/15408-2\/Turning-Lamp-On-and-Off-With-Static-Electricity-small.jpg\" alt=\"Turning Lamp On and Off With Static Electricity - Small\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So while sitting at my desk rubbing my feet against the rubber chair mat, I noticed I was building up static electricity. What&#8217;s even cooler is that when I touch my keyboard tray, it actually turns off my lamp. If I do it again, it turns the lamp back on. My lamp is one of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/17\/turning-onoff-lamp-with-static-electricity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Turning On\/Off Lamp With Static Electricity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.krunk4ever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}