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UK Issues High-tech Stamps

Posted by michael on from the stick-to-the-topic dept.

bgood writes: "According to this story on Excite@Home, the UK's Royal Mail has released a series of "interactive" stamps. Included in the series: A scratch-and-sniff stamp, a stamp with a hologram, and another that shows an electrically-charged particle when warmed by finger heat. The stamps commemorate 100 years of the Nobel Prize and Britain's achievements. The Royal Mail describes the stamps here."

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  1. Old News... by Bert64 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This appeared on UK television and in the printed media last week..

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  2. old news by flumps · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That is SOOOO old.

    The BBC covered this story on TUESDAY!!


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