For the last five years, an aquarium in Kamakura, Tokyo, has powered a 6'6" tall Christmas tree by electric eel power. Inside the eel's tank is a pair of aluminum plates that act as electrodes to power the lights of the tree every time the eel moves.
This year, they've added another display along with the tree that uses human power to work this time. Visitors stomp on a pad to make a Santa Claus robot sing and dance. The display's creator, Kazuhiko Minawa, imagines what the light produced by a Christmas tree powered by all the electric eels in the world would look like. But if you were to do that, why just power a Christmas tree?
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