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Nov 17 05: ebullience

I can’t exactly articulate why I’ve been bouncing around the house like a crazy person over the story I found on BoingBoing this evening, but I have. A guy from St. Paul has done what scientists had long thought impossible: he developed the colored soap-bubble. It took ten years of endless, obsessive tinkering, and of ruining clothes and kitchens and dying various bodily tissues funny colors, but he did it. And they’re beautiful: gemlike blues and oranges and reds and greens and yellows; something I can only call ‘opaque ivory,’ even black. (Goth kids everywhere, your hour of glory is at hand.) Plus when they pop all over your skin/your hair/the sofa, the dye magically fades away after a few seconds’ exposure to air, water, or pressure. My mind, she is blown by the sheer coolness.

That dye has innumerable other exciting applications, too. The inventors are gonna make a skillion dollars off this.

Science! It’s neat! Yay for people obsessed with quixotic, whimsical nonsense! Yay!

Commentary

That is so cool! I can’t wait to get some!

posted by Heather, Nov 23 05 4:31 PM