Like many projects, this one started with a harmless question. “Will lava lamps work in a high-gravity environment such as Jupiter?”. Well, as it turns out, this harmless question was not so ...

Jessica Orwig: No. It really does look like human fat. Jones: That's me and my boss opening up a lava lamp. [glugging] Oh! Are we getting these noises, guys? Our goal was simple: to figure out ...

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: Lava lamps might be the most cult item of lighting in the world. Since their invention in 1963, millions of the lamps have been sold across the globe.

The Lava Lamp system goes beyond single-point temperature measurements by leveraging an elastic network of infrared cameras, a central gateway hub, and cloud infrastructure with video feed storage and ...

The lava lamp was invented by Edward Craven Walker whose other claim to fame was making underwater nudist films. Ryan R. Reed At a certain moment in the late 1960s, the lava lamp came to symbolize ...