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- xtmno3, on 05/20/2008, -1/+204Looks like I finally figured out what color to paint the outside of my house.
- doctechnical, on 05/20/2008, -3/+132A new application of tritium lighting which has been around for quite a while. And of course there's the fun of telling people the reason it glows is because it's radioactive.
Unfortunately the NRC is rather hard-nosed about using tritium lighting for "novelty" uses, so I wouldn't expect to see this on US shelves any time soon. Too bad, it looks like fun. - trotskyist, on 05/20/2008, -4/+96This has to cause cancer...
- drakethegreat, on 05/20/2008, -5/+95I'm scared that this will become popular on cars and then not only will people blast rap but they will have glowing SUVs that piss you off even more at 3 AM.
- slothchunk, on 05/20/2008, -4/+88remember how movies from the 80's portrayed the future? Turns out they're right.
- branndon, on 05/20/2008, -6/+75Ah crap... now the ricers will have something new to annoy me with.
- Armor1901, on 05/20/2008, -6/+72Digg reminds me of those make up commercials where the product supposedly gets rid of wrinkles. Every few weeks or so a company says they found a revolutionary way of eliminating all wrinkles, then a few weeks later, a new product comes out claiming the same.
Every few weeks on Digg, AIDS, cancer, and the energy problem gets solved.
Then, a few weeks later, it gets solved again! - speezer, on 05/20/2008, -3/+54They should put that stuff in breast implants.
- Lane, on 05/20/2008, -3/+50Lan parties will never be the same again.
- jtscira, on 05/20/2008, -3/+43If McCain wins the election everything will be glowing that color.
- slothchunk, on 05/20/2008, -0/+36might as well get your flock of seagulls haircut now and beat the crowd
- Mootabolife, on 05/20/2008, -0/+28Yes you do.
- gannondork, on 05/20/2008, -1/+24But when will my Nike's be autolacing?
- Evi1d33d, on 05/20/2008, -0/+22Having trouble finding them in the dark?
- Shadowgamers, on 05/20/2008, -7/+28But I don't want rave parties to last 15 years :[[[
- Mootabolife, on 05/20/2008, -0/+19They give you superpowers.
- Namelessthinker, on 05/20/2008, -0/+17Tritium is quite expensive too.
- vuke69, on 05/20/2008, -1/+17You will all bow to cancer man!
- publiclurker, on 05/20/2008, -0/+16A few years ago they were selling key chains with a tritium light in them in the UK. Some were available on eBay in the US. A google search might still show up something.
- badassninja, on 05/20/2008, -0/+16Dude, all thru out Jr. High I wanted to grow up to own a car that was painted with something like this.
- j1ggy, on 05/20/2008, -0/+16I'm still waiting for my flying car running on a Mr. Fusion.
- iDoraemon, on 05/20/2008, -2/+17The catch is that it turns us into zombies.
I for one welcome our future zombie overlords - inactive, on 05/20/2008, -0/+13The beta radiation is supposedly absorbed by the phosphorus before it escapes.
- RussellDovey, on 05/20/2008, -0/+12Could have been one of those old uranium watches. They used to make those. Glowing paint on the watch dial wouldn't have done jack *****; he'd have needed to eat the watch.
- vuke69, on 05/20/2008, -0/+12It IS tritium. The innovative part is them managing to put it in the center of polymer micro-spheres.
- coheedcollapse, on 05/20/2008, -0/+12You can get them super cheap here:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.6830
I plan on buying one when I feel like randomly wasting $10. - bjornski, on 05/20/2008, -2/+14Radium was formerly used in self-luminous paints for watches, nuclear panels, aircraft switches, clocks, and instrument dials. More than 100 former watch dial painters who used their lips to shape the paintbrush died from the radiation from the radium that had become stored in their bones. Soon afterward, the adverse effects of radioactivity became widely known. Radium was still used in dials as late as the 1950s. Although tritium's beta radiation is potentially dangerous if ingested, it has replaced radium in these applications.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium - chenley1, on 05/20/2008, -0/+12What time did he die?
- choopie911, on 05/20/2008, -0/+11It's made from owl tears.
- Stonekeeper, on 05/20/2008, -0/+11Imagine what the Tron Guy could do with this!
- inactive, on 05/20/2008, -2/+12I wanna buy this stuff and then drop some acid
- ripple123, on 05/20/2008, -1/+11I want my damn hoverboard damnit. And holographic sharks.
- doctechnical, on 05/20/2008, -0/+10No, this stuff is very safe. The very very small amount of radioactivity that the tritium has produces is pretty much trapped in the glass/polymer, and it's enough to energize some phosphor into glowing but not much else.
I've had some tritium keychain fobs (mentioned above) for some years, I also have a geiger counter - the fobs can't make the counter's needle twitch. - Killeroid, on 05/20/2008, -0/+10No, that was radium
- austin006, on 05/20/2008, -0/+10heyyyyy
nuclear weapons are NOT novelty use - isaactwito, on 05/20/2008, -1/+10I thought you said cans. Wouldn't that be cool, glowing soda cans.
- machocheese34, on 05/20/2008, -2/+11I want that bike
- BTraina, on 05/20/2008, -1/+10It's ok. They haven't invented extacy that keeps a 15 year high.
- blitz718, on 05/20/2008, -14/+23Mmmmmmmmm, cancer
- choopie911, on 05/20/2008, -1/+10Any info on why they're so hardassed about public novelty use?
- wwnexc, on 05/20/2008, -1/+9Is that similar to Tritium? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritium%29
Both last about 10-15 years, can glow green and yellow, etc... - wild, on 05/20/2008, -0/+8Uncle Ben is going to kick your ass.
- WWWoody, on 05/20/2008, -2/+10I...I don't want people to see me when I'm lanning. The intimacy between myself and the glow of my monitor can't be intruded on by this, this "tritium light."
- inactive, on 05/20/2008, -0/+8from wiki answers:
Tritium lighting is made using glass tubes with a phosphor layer in them and tritium (a hydrogen isotope) gas inside the tube. Such a tube is known as a "gaseous tritium light source" (GTLS).
Because tritium in particular is an integral part of thermonuclear devices (though in quantities several thousand times larger than that in a keychain), devices containing tritium are considered dual-use technology in the U.S.A., and are therefore illegal for export. However, they are widely available in the U.K., most of Europe (some countries like Belgium have outlawed them however), Asia and Australia.
Tritium devices can be purchased in the UK and Australia, but are illegal for import to the United States, however they are available in the US as gunsights and for military applications.
UK Source
http://www.crazyaboutgadgets.com/detail.asp?ID=371 (no longer on site)
AU Source
http://www.kitbag.com.au/prod849.htm
USA Source (Military Personnel only)
http://www.ameriglo.net/tactical_dev.htm - TJ11240, on 05/20/2008, -9/+16I think its the same thing that makes watches glow green
- inactive, on 05/20/2008, -1/+8My hatred for those who have regulated tritium here knows no bounds... A hotel I was at last weekend had 30Ci tritium signs in every ***** hallway. And yet all I can legally ***** own is a goddamn tritium watch containing 25mCi.
- adrames, on 05/20/2008, -3/+9Where to buy?
- wild, on 05/20/2008, -0/+6wrong, but funny. so damned fun.
- Suricou, on 05/20/2008, -0/+6The modern glowing watch dials use a chemical that converts light to chemical energy and vice versa. I don't know how it works beyond that - exposing it to light charges it up, and in the dark it emits light again. Entirely safe in every way.
Old glowing watch dials did use radium. Alpha decay though - no risk to the user unless they open it up. Lots of risk to the people who made them. - inactive, on 05/20/2008, -1/+7well a glowing SUV makes it harder to hide from the cops when they are doing stupid stuff and someone finally calls them :)
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