Hi!
A light related something and I forgot all about my old love CPF
Hope this is the right subforum, not sure where moodlights go ^_^
Ok, so a long long time ago (2002-2004 ish?) I bought the most awesome moodlight ever,the 'Mystic Lite' serious, never seen anything quite as good
The design is simple and brilliant, a glass bowl with a Rheoscopic fluid and some coloring inside (look up 'Pearl Swirl' to find the stuff and how it looks ), together with a tiny impellor driven by a magnet on the end of an electric motor. The company that made this thing is:
http://www.rabbit-tanaka.com/
And the patent for the thing is:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6877883.html
So, even tho it's a lovely design, after years of storage (had no place to put it ), the lil impellor got stuck, so it no longer swirls *sad*. And trying to fix it I broke the glass bowl, so now It's -Reallly- Broken ^_^
I'd really really like to replace it, but I think they haven't made any since 2004, and it's likely that any existing ones have died of similar causes
I'm amazed I haven't seen it around since then, but I guess they gave up on it, and with the patent noone else could make it
Soo, anyone has any idea where to find a working one, or a similar design? ^_^ Cause it was really really really neat
Cheers! ^.^
A light related something and I forgot all about my old love CPF
Hope this is the right subforum, not sure where moodlights go ^_^
Ok, so a long long time ago (2002-2004 ish?) I bought the most awesome moodlight ever,the 'Mystic Lite' serious, never seen anything quite as good
The design is simple and brilliant, a glass bowl with a Rheoscopic fluid and some coloring inside (look up 'Pearl Swirl' to find the stuff and how it looks
), together with a tiny impellor driven by a magnet on the end of an electric motor. The company that made this thing is:http://www.rabbit-tanaka.com/
And the patent for the thing is:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6877883.html
So, even tho it's a lovely design, after years of storage (had no place to put it
), the lil impellor got stuck, so it no longer swirls *sad*. And trying to fix it I broke the glass bowl, so now It's -Reallly- Broken ^_^I'd really really like to replace it, but I think they haven't made any since 2004, and it's likely that any existing ones have died of similar causes
I'm amazed I haven't seen it around since then, but I guess they gave up on it, and with the patent noone else could make it
Soo, anyone has any idea where to find a working one, or a similar design? ^_^ Cause it was really really really neat
Cheers! ^.^
