RDS abuzz as bright sparks show off talents

THE atmosphere crackled with excitement - and one million volts of electricity - during an experiment displayed at the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition’s opening ceremony yesterday.

The demonstration at Dublin’s RDS saw a performer step into a metal cage to protect himself from a potentially lethal charge leaping between two giant transformer coils.

“I’m absolutely fine, but don’t try this at home,” Simon Singh joked as he stepped unharmed from the ‘coffin of doom’.