Lee’s Journal

Yes, you read the title right! It’s the Fruit Powered Clock, a digital clock and calendar powered by food. Just add a fresh fruit or vegetable to the supplied components and you’ll get the perfect synthesis of nature’s own electrical power resource and the accuracy of a digital clock.

The concept of the Fruit Powered clock was from a professor of physics at the University of Pavia, Italy, Alessandro Volta.

It was on March 20, 1800 that he sent a letter to the Royal Society of London describing a revolutionary discovery. He had stacked a zinc disk and a copper disk, with a leather disk in between. The leather disk had been soaked in a mild acid solution of lemon juice. Volta found that a small flow of electrical current between the copper and the zinc resulted. Thus was born the ‘voltaic pile’ or electrical storage battery. With this Fruit Powered Clock you will essentially replicate this experiment by Volta. The ultimate in clean and renewable power sources.

You can get the Fruit Powered Clock for $14.95 only (sale price).

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