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Newton’s Cradle, device employed to demonstrate conservation of momentum and energy was re-interpreted in a modern version by Japanese student Yasutoki Kariya with his project Asobi, recipient of the Mitsubishi Chemical’s Junior Designer Award in 2012. Isaac Newton meets the light of Thomas Edison and the physics is substituted with motion control. The light bulbs that substitute the metal swinging spheres that compose the Cradle make the passage of energy from one side to the other visible.