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Flexiglow UV Reactive Neon Paint
VL is running a review of (no I'm not kidding) UV Reflective Paint for whatever sort of artistic case design aspirations you might have. Various colors and some bad photos make me kind of wonder about the whole thing, but perhaps others have more informed thoughts...
Painting up a keyboard would be great for a (particularly goth) club DJ's PC - both in looks and functionality.
from Clearneon?
Is it just that clearneon sprays on and this has to be applied by the applicator?
Disconnect and self-destruct, one bullet at a time.
How much of a performance boost will this paint give me? Will it allow me to run Doom 3 in XGA??
Note that you can see some pretty interesting "pre-painted" gear directly at the company's website.
I'm not terribly familiar with the latest in case-modding, so I have to ask - are these UV lights entirely safe for longterm exposure? Say, 16 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year?
--Ryv
Can I put it in my inkjet?
I remember painting the inside of my folks microwave when I was younger using a similar green paint.
My non too technical mother freaked when she saw the "radioactive glow".
But this new stuff, can I use it on skin?
I have a lovely sphinx cat which would look devastating with a fluorescent glow.
I can now put flames on the side of my video card, just like my car! Flames make anything go super fast!
Personally, I think painting my hardware is on the level with doing burnouts in front of the high school with my bitchin Camaro that I will fix up someday. It does nothing for system performance, and can't imagine what it's doing to the thermal properties of the card. It's just tacky. Really tacky. If you have that much energy you should concentrate on Doing something a little harder
Dirty Pirate Hooker
If the computer case glows, you have problems.
UV leads to eye damage. (cateracts?)
Plus there's skin cancer, your furniture fading...
I'm not a photographer, but I play one on /.
Use a tripod or other solid mount when making photos in low light conditions... it keeps your photos from bluring.
UV Reactive Posters. Right, I'm off to the patent office!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Now I dont have to get up and switch on the lights - i can avoid the horrors of typing pubLic with L missing!
But fun would be to set the background of the 'windows' to one such color - if available in future!
did you know that (at least here in germany) it's actually forbidden to use computers which don't have a complete metal cover? it's because of the radio interference, I believe.
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...to make my velvet Elvis casemod a reality.
I've seen UV-glowy paints around for years. This is nothing new. You still need a blacklight (ie UV light) for it to be visible, it doesn't just glow in the dark magically (that would be more interesting, but still nothing amazing - there are plenty of fluorescent material about). So what's so great about this that it deserves a front-page post on slashdot?
Daniel
Carpe Diem
Maybe Viperlair should take some of the money they make from using slashdot as their free advertising platform and buy a non-shitty digital camera+tripod, so they don't look like a hardware review site ran out of some teenager's basement...
Dayglo paint, and the flag people running around in a glowing bus.
It's the electric kool aid acid test all over again!
terpmotors.com
Im still waiting for a backlit keyboard that looks like something out of a cockpit, that would rock.. or i could save my eyesight, money and timne and just get a life..
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its not cheap but it can be done
A computer system that fits into the surrounding decor, seamlessly, as if it were a well-chosen piece of furniture, efficiently serving its prime function, while maintaining a muted physical presence that does not grandly announce its existence to every pair of eyes in the vicinity, thereby diminishing the worth of whatever is being presented upon the screen? Or shouldn't I say that here?
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Peace
I used to work in a prepress lab where we used UV rigs to expose plates and Matchprints. The units are usually closed boxes so no UV leaks out, but we had a huge freestanding unit that had huge UV-opaque curtains around it. And that's because prolonged UV exposure is a health risk.
The manufacturers of these UV systems made it absolutely clear, prolonged exposure to UV light will dramatically increase your likelyhood of geting cataracts and skin cancer. I don't know anything about the cataracts, but I sure wouldn't do anything to endanger my vision since I depend on being able to read a computer screen.
But I do have personal experience with the effects of UV lights on skin. I worked around UV lights for years, and despite my precautions to minimize exposure, I've already developed a 3 precancerous lesions that had to be removed, one was a basal cell carcinoma in an early stage, the two were neoplastic somethingorother that my dermatologist says would have developed into melanoma (skin cancer) if I hadn't had them removed. Now I have to go to my dermatologist every 6 months for a complete body inspection, and have any lesion that is even the slightest bit suspicious surgically removed. I guarantee that these lesions were solely due to UV exposure in the lab, because I'm a night person and I hate going out in the sun.
DO NOT FUCK WITH MELANOMA. It is one of the deadliest cancers around. Most people are dead within 6 months of discovering they have the disease, it metastasizes rapidly into every organ in your body within weeks, and becomes inoperable. Most people are already fatally afflicted by the time they even discover they melanoma.
So if you want to play around with kewl glowing UV lights, just realize you might be inflicting fatal damage on yourself.
Real hardcore gamers make their keys glow by painting radium on their keyboards.
Something that might work with all those glowing colors and paints would be a fog machine. Maybe I'm just thinking of Deep Thought.
try { do() || do_not(); } catch (JediException err) { yoda(err); }
RTFA and see that the author (of TFA) doesn't know how to take pictures.
The manufacturers of these UV systems made it absolutely clear, prolonged exposure to UV light will dramatically increase your likelyhood of geting cataracts and skin cancer.
So will prolonged exposure to too much visible light. It is all just radiation, and too much radiation at ANY frequency is harmful. Higher-frequency radiation tends to be worse, but UV and visible light at not that far apart on the frequency scale, at least on the low end where recreational paint targets.
Which, brings up another issue. Commercial UV equipment may be at a higher frequency and intensity than recreational UV equipment. Recreational UV stuff usually targets lower frequencies to reduce risk. Your workplace may use higher UV frequencies for industrial needs, which can be near to X-rays. The range of frequencies from "long-wave" UV to "short-wave" UV is relatively wide.
For recreational stuff, one should have a directional bulb or directional lamp and not face the lamp light toward their body, especially the eyes. In other words, shine it on the case, not your face.
Table-ized A.I.
UV condums may turn into a great fad. If you are strait, your GF may get a kick out of Glowing Willy. If you are gay, you can recreate Light-Sabre fight scenes from Star Wars.
Table-ized A.I.
You are spreading dangerous misinformation. You say that exposure to "regular light" will give you cataracts and skin cancer too. So what IS "regular light?" Stuff that comes out of incandescent bulbs? Nope. Full spectrum sunlight? Yeah, that will give you problems, because it has UV in it too. It's the UV light, not visible spectrum light, that will give you skin cancer and cataracts.
There is no difference whatsoever between the commercial UV rigs I used and the "recreational" UV lamps, except in intensity. The spectra are almost identical. I use an array of 6 "recreational" UV tubes to expose the same narrow-spectrum UV sensitive plates I used in the pro lab, except it takes 15 minutes to expose the plates instead of 2 minutes. I guarantee you that these "recreational" UV tubes are just as dangerous as the high-intensity rigs, in fact, the "recreational" tubes might be MORE dangerous, because idiots like YOU think they're safe and thus they have more cumulative exposure with no precautions whatsoever.
I realize this is slashdot, and every idiot thinks their opinion is correct, but I remind you, UV systems are an area where I have professional expertise and you don't know jack shit about them compared to me. So just SHUT the FUCK up, and quit telling people these lamps are safe, unless you want to be personally responsible for giving people skin cancer and cataracts. YOU are a health risk, if you spread incorrect information that would encourage people to take stupid, unnecessary risks.
Many many moons ago I colored my keyboard and mounted a blacklight underneath my monitor stand so that I could be in a very dark room and still see my keys needed to code n play my video games.
... my hands always smelled clean.
Problem was I used Tide to color the keys, as Tide laundry detergent reflects rather brightly under blacklight. A little too brightly in fact as I soon washed it off becuase it was too bright and distracting.
But let me tell you when I was using that thing
*DrugCheese rants*
When I saw the heading "UV-reflective paint", my first thought was "Oh Wow!!! Paintings for Bees!!"
Bees see into the ultraviolet, and many quite plain looking flowers have quite garish patterns in their UV reflectance so the bees can easily see them and home in on the nectar.
But this is just fluorescent paint. Colour me unimpressed.
Undoubtably, the biohazard and radioactive etched warning signs look really cool. But if your house or office were on fire, would the emergency services refuse to continue to work in the building if they saw potential radiation and biological hazards that they didn't have the correct protective gear for?
Vintage computer adverts: http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/computers-and-software-ads
You are spreading dangerous misinformation. You say that exposure to "regular light" will give you cataracts and skin cancer too.
Yes, regular (visible) light *can* give you skin cancer, according to some research I looked at. It is one of the reasons why "real" sunblock that lifeguards use can be seen unaided. It is usualy white or pale in color.
As far as cataracts, I don't know.
There is no difference whatsoever between the commercial UV rigs I used and the "recreational" UV lamps, except in intensity.
Okay. It was not clear. I only suggested that is something to check when comparing.
But, "intensity" may be the key. Most people live less than 100 years. It may take 1000 years under low intensity to have noticable side-effects. But, since nobody lives that long, it ain't matter. If your group of lights is 50 times that amount, then a decade or two would put one in the range of danger.
Further, you getting skin leasions is not positive proof that your lab lights are the cause. You may have gotten them anyhow. Until we expirement with a 100 or so of your clones, we have no direct way to tell with reasonable certainty what the cause of the leasions were. One sample size (you) is insufficient to draw conclusions from. Maybe some other gizmo or chemical in your work area caused it or contributed to it.
And, I suggest you add a bit more diplomacy to your wording. It comes across as rude and condescending. If you think I am wrong, simply say so nicely.
Table-ized A.I.
All this obsession with modding the part of the computer you don't look at.
How about an acrylic case for the monitor?
hell, the back of it glows all by itself.
I have recieved almost identical results with highlighters and a UV light sorce.
-William
God is everything science has yet to explain.
I was surprised to notice that the bottle and applicator in the poster's link looks just like that for regular nail polish.
UV reactive color-changing nail polish has been around for a few years, and is available in many colors. The nail polish changes from Color A to Color B and a few brands have 3-Color transitions. Unlike the Flexiglow product mentioned, I don't think these are available in Clear.
Its available at several nail polish sites like Del Sol and Solar Magic. Its sometimes called Mood Change nail polish.
BTW - I've never used the stuff myself (lol), but I've seen worn by several women. Some of the color changes are quite dramatic.
Just give up and quit spreading misinformation. You don't know what you're talking about. My dermatologist does. Visible light frequencies without UV does NOT give you skin cancer. Sunlight (which includes UV) and direct UV exposure does.
If you don't like being treated in a rude and condescending manner, then I suggest you do not provide reckless, illogical, stupid contradictions to information given to me by qualified medical specialists, something they clearly stated that I must know in order to prevent my own death from skin cancer.
And you just proved it's true about you. There are many different kinds of UV lamps. I own ones with different spectra. Some are more dangerous than others.
http://www.unitednuclear.com/
http://www.unitednuclear.com/glow.htm
Blurb:
We now stock the new generation of Phosphorescent (Glow in the Dark) material in pure powder form. This is not the old Zinc Sulfide based material that's commonly found in the typical glow in the dark items. As you know, that cheap stuff only glows for about an hour after being exposed to light. This new Phosphorescent powder is doped with the element Europium, along with other rare earth elements that give it an astonishing glow time of over 12 hours!
I'd go on a Vegan diet but the delivery time from Vega is too long. --brownkitty
There is a professional company called Wildfire that makes UV lights and paints for stage and theater (think Mr Toads wild ride @ Disney).
.then you can fade into another and another. I always thought it would be awesome to paint a house with it. Find a nice house in a normal neighborhood with a stringent neighborhood association. House is normal by day. But at night time, it turns into some sorta sick florescent tetris looking freakshow.
They sell the lights and paints at different wavelenghts... so you can actually paint several scenes (clearly) over a standard painting... then fire up wavelength #1 and kill normal light and you will see one wavelength of paint..
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My gameroom is filled with arcade games, and there is UV lighting from overhead. But I experimented with different designs and patterns to put on the walls (for what little wall-space remains visible).
The interesting combination I came across, which could apply to PC case mods as well, is by using regular paint, UV reactive paint, and glow-in-the-dark paint.
By using the three different types, you can create an image under normal everyday light. Then, when the lights go off and the UV light goes on, you can have a different image (caused by both the UV reactive paint and the photoluminescent paint).
Finally, once the UV light is off, you are left with the images created only by the photoluminescent paint colors.
So you can create some interesting changes in a picture based on the timing of regular and blacklight exposure.
As I understand it, incandescent "black" light aren't real black lights, they're just regular lightbulbs which have been painted violet.
Which is quite different from florescent black lights. The fluorescents are the real deal and include the warned against UV.
I get all my glow supplies from http://www.glowinc.com/ ; here's a nice page of their wares: http://glowinc.com/SearchResult.aspx?CategoryID=2
like a hardware review site ran out of some teenager's basement
That's it, game over. Time to close down this site; they're onto us. You didn't talk to anyone outside, did you, Mom? Mom?
from http://www.skincancer.org/prevention/index.php
Titanium dioxide and zinc oxide. These inorganic pigments physically block nearly all UVA and UVB rays and are not absorbed by the skin. Newer inorganic sunblocks called microfine oxides are less visible and not as messy as older ones, which left thick, hard-to-remove smudges. People with light-sensitive skin conditions should be aware that neither organic formulas nor inorganic microfine oxides protect against visible light. Inorganic, transparent sunscreens that block visible light are currently available in Europe but not in the United States.
Visible light might not be as threatening as UV, but it is not risk-free.
Table-ized A.I.
Transparent sunscreens that block visible light, huh?
Think about that for a second... You might want to look up "transparent"...
Transparent sunscreens that block visible light, huh? Think about that for a second... You might want to look up "transparent"...
Maybe they are tinted or dark or something. Again, note that life-guards put a visible light-blocking cream on their noses. If the problem was *just* UV, they would not need solid creams.
Table-ized A.I.
A few facts that you will want to cross-check with him:
So basically almost everything you have said is correct. But also most of what Tabilizer said is correct, although part is not very significant after quantifying the variables (for example the risks). So I agree more with you than with him: "don't play with UV light, it's not worth it", but I do acknowledge that the basic information he spread was essentially true, although not really relevant.
Please, continue providing what you believe is good information. And when you see that someone is spreading what you think is misinformation correct them promptly, but do it in a decent way. Things like:
actually weaken your point because they make you look like an intolerant bigot (even more since you are not even the one with professional expertise). A well written response in which you don't insult the other person is will probably get the message across more effectively, not only to the other poster but, more importantly, to the people who may have been misguided by him.
Some literature to help you get a better insight on the topic (note that most is not even recent):
Does light cause internal cancers? The problem and challenge of an ubiquitous exposure.
Neuro Endocrinol Lett. 2002 Jul;23 Suppl 2:61-70. Review.
Induction of oxidative DNA base damage in human skin cells by UV and near visible radiation.
Carcinogenesis. 1997 Dec;18(12):2379-84.
Solar considerations in the development of cutaneous melanoma.
Semin Oncol. 1988 Dec;15(6):494-9.
it's ok you can stop replying now :)
:)
Sakusha managed to demonstrate in two posts that his opinion is worthless and is incapable of having a civil debate