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Mad Scientist Invents Colored Bubbles

Posted by Zonk on from the bubbles-make-the-heart-float dept.

Anonymous Custard writes "Popular Science has a fascinating article up about toy inventor Tim Kehoe's quest to create colored bubbles. 'Chemical burns, ruined clothes, 11 years, half a million dollars--it's not easy to improve the world's most popular toy. ... It turns out that coloring a bubble is an exceptionally difficult bit of chemistry.'"

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  1. Video by Mard · · Score: 5, Informative

    There is video of children playing with the bubbles on the company's website:
    http://www.zubbles.com/gallery/index.asp

    Screw Hurricane Katrina, somebody make this guy Person of the Year.

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