Energy saving light bulbs can trigger migraines, health experts and charities warned last night. They have been inundated with complaints about the fluorescent bulbs, which are due to become compulsory in homes within four years.

Campaigners are calling for the Government to allow an opt-out for people with health problems so they can continue to use old-style bulbs. The warning follows concerns that eco-bulbs can trigger dizziness, loss of focus and discomfort among people with epilepsy. There have also been complaints from people with lupus - an auto-immune disease causing many symptoms including pain.

Low energy lightbulbs are miniature versions of the fluorescent strip lights common in offices and kitchens. The latest generation are the size of conventional incandescent bulbs with a filament, but use just a quarter of the energy.

Although they are often five times the cost of old-fashioned bulbs, they use around a quarter of the energy and can pay for themselves within months. Critics, however, say the technology is still not up to scratch. Many complain the light is cold or green, and they take up to a minute to warm up properly, and because they are fluorescent, they flicker.

Man…I’m using it at my home. Should I throw it away?

Do you know who is Pooja Dholakia and Riddhi Dasani?
Have you heard of their name before?

Well, they are among the famous student in India because they managed to invent an eco-friendly sketch pen inks. Yup, they just like any other Class IX students, except for the fact that they are also innovators. The two young girls from S G Dholakia School have invented six natural eco-friendly ink colours by crushing beat roots, turmeric and coriander and a motley of other vegetables, for use in sketch pens and markers, to replace the regular petrochemical based inks currently in use.

Their efforts have certainly paid off. At the three-day national science fair organised by the Ministry of Science and Technology, CII and chipmaker Intel at Pune, their project bagged the first prize among the six final short-listed from 115.

A total of 1,400 projects were in the fray for selection by a team of 40 academicians, researches and scientists from across India.

The teenage girls are now all set to showcase their invention along with students of 40 other countries, at Atlanta, in the US, next March.
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have you heard of this name before?
Well if you don’t, maybe you should read this post because there’s something for you.

From ejection seats to crew escape capsules, many military members’ lives have been saved by the inventions of Oscar Sepp. Countless civilians have saved a lot of frustration from losing toothpaste caps, thanks to Sepp.

His first design, which never was patented, was of a three-cylinder hydromatic motorcycle, drawn while he was at MIT in 1952. He studied there while he was in the Naval Reserve.

Sepp once engineered an improvement for his Hammond organ that included an insertable coded card “to set it up for a certain style of playing, so that all you had to do was play the notes without worrying about adjusting the preselectors for the tonal control elements of the organ” - and received a patent for it 1966 it. His first patent application was an invention for the Colgate-Palmolive Co. in 1954 for Brisk toothpaste…..!!!!!
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