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...

Comments

Benchmarks Please?

[Average_Joe_Sixpack]

How much of a performance boost will this paint give me? Will it allow me to run Doom 3 in XGA??

Re:Benchmarks Please?

[baywulf]

To get DOOM 3 level of performance you need a bigger chrome exhaust (fan) and a "calvin and hobbes" sticker.

Note

[elid]

Note that you can see some pretty interesting "pre-painted" gear directly at the company's website.

I have to ask

[Ryvar]

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

Re:I have to ask

[Vic]

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?

Um, I think you have bigger issues than the choice of paint on your PC. :)

Re:I have to ask

[Zocalo]

Well there has already been speculation that some of the plastics used for cable insulation and component construction may not be UV proof. I gather the effect was that long term exposure to UV lighting used in case mods caused the plastic to breakdown leading to the possibility of shorts and component failure, although precise timescales were unclear. If the UV is potent enough to break down plastic over time, then it's got to be having an effect on your skin, right?

Then again, if you are sitting by your PC for 16 hours a day, then that's a lot of UV from sunlight you are missing - it *might* balance out... Just make sure that you move around enough to get an even tan. :)

Re:I have to ask

[WareW01f]

Prolly not. Most things I've read indicate that even the tamer wavelengths of UV used in black lights can still cause cataracts I would imagine that the UV LEDs would cause problems too (with enough exposure) although there is not yet an LED out there at the right wavelength to do real damage (and be useful for things like steralizing things, or say, keeping water in water cooled PCs from getting slimy... if I'm wrong about this please post a link here as there are many that would like to know) There are many fun links (like here and here) on the fun effects of the different forms of UV. Most deal with tanning beds and sun, but I'm sure if you spend enough time in blacklight, the same applies.

I'm sure in the end most Slashdotter's will opt for more enertaining ways of going blind. >;^)

Re:I have to ask

[legirons]

"are these UV lights entirely safe for longterm exposure?"

They may not know the birthdate of Alexander Hamilton, but Wikipedia does have an article on ultraviolet light and its health effects.

Inkjet?

[superswede]

Can I put it in my inkjet?

The good old days

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

making a bitchin hoopty

[photozz]

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

Re:making a bitchin hoopty

[bergeron76]

Interestingly, they sell clear versions of this paint for use on license plates. They apparently make your plate illegible to Traffic Camera's.

the laws

[myukew]

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.

Finally, the technology...

[Anonymous Coward]

...to make my velvet Elvis casemod a reality.

What's so amazing about this?

[KDan]

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

UV exposure = Risk of cataracts, melanoma

[sakusha]

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.