When you see his 3D-printed mechanical jellyfish lamp, we think you’ll agree. Honestly, it is hardly fair to call it a lamp. It is really — as [Ben] points out — a kinetic sculpture.
On permanent display in a baroque space at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the installation is a crowd-pleaser for the way its lights fall from the sky and bloom into silky, jellyfish-like structures.
Each morning around 6, when dawn brightens the eastern sky, they begin to swim toward the light. Pumping water through their bells, these jellyfish use a type of jet propulsion to follow the ...