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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. Re:Giggling Geek by dcam · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Interesting.

    As someone who is about to get married, wife for me has the connotation that the union is permanent and public, before God, friends and family. I couldn't care less about the government. But I guess Christians are funny like that.

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