MOVA 4-1/2" Solar Spinning Mercury Globe
Product Code: 7055
Our Price: $160.00
Description
Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, is similar in appearance to the Moon. Represented as a globe with an abundance of craters and enhanced colors, the Mercury MOVA Globe is a stunning recreation of the planet and an impressively emphatic decor piece.
Comes with the standard 3 prong acrylic base, optional bases available (Cobra, Arch, Square, Crystal). See pull down menu for details.
Inside each MOVA globe is a patented, ultra low friction drive mechanism and a set of special solar cells. The globe allows enough light to pass through and energize these solar cells to power the drive mechanism. MOVA globe may turn on a mere 1 to 5 millionth of a watt of electricity provided by these solar cells!
The MOVA globe rotates peacefully and silently using only the energy of room light and the force of the earth’s magnetic field. The MOVA globe is an inner globe that rotates and is contained within an outer shell made of very clear acrylic that does not rotate. The thin space between the inner globe and outer shell is filled with a safe, perfectly clear fluid that buoyantly supports the inner globe completely out of contact with the outer shell. This inner globe, floating and turning in a virtually friction-free environment and energized by light, is analogous to the earth itself. The MOVA globe is being brought to market at a time when people everywhere will understand and appreciate this analogy. The optical properties of the outer sell and fluid are carefully chosen so that the graphic features on the surface of the inner globe are magnified and appear to be on the outer surface of the outer shell. This means that the outer shell actually appears to move. The MOVA globe can rest on an attractive three fingered stand that is provided, or on any other base you choose. The MOVA globe appears to rotate in spite of resting on the stand, in quiet defiance of commonly held ideas about the laws of friction. A carefully designed, and highly efficient drive mechanism within the inner globe drives the rotation even in room light. Energy for the drive is provided by very advanced solar cells within the inner globe, illuminated by light passing through the graphic on the globe. The drive includes a magnetic element that reacts with the earth’ s magnetic field, much as a common compass does, to provide torque to drive the globe. All of these elements of the MOVA globe cooperate to create a beautiful, magical object that provides a meditative point of focus to any room.
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