The Story of Coloured Bubbles
Posted by Ray @ 11:07 amUpdate
Boingboing posted links to the official website, where there are pictures of this marvellous creation. I love ‘em already. They’re really pretty, in an almost unreal way.
Be sure to check out the video too. These are magic. This guy’s gonna make millions.
Popular Science has an interestingly whimsical story on the man who invented coloured bubbles. The goal was to find a bubble that would be coloured while it floated in the air, but disappear completely once they burst. It’s not as easy as you’d think - it took 11 years and $500, 000 before success came.
The fun update to a traditional toy - dubbed the Zubble - may hit the market in time for the Christmas season. They sound very pretty. Might buy a few of them myself just to play with bubbles again.
Excerpt:
The first five minutes of the party were stunning. Mothers gasped, and a few were even moved to tears, at the initial sight of the strangely vivid orbs almost glowing in the sunlight. Kids shrieked and chased after them. It was the moment Kehoe had pictured all those years—not big checks or fame, just seeing this project reach its end in a single joyous afternoon.
And then the bubbles broke—on the kids, on the parents, on cars, on Haddleton’s prized German shepherds. It looked like there had been a paint fight. Kehoe had told the parents that the color would wash out, but it didn’t matter. Not when their children were covered head to toe in blue and pink splotches, when the color was getting into their shoes and hair and soaking into the concrete. In the faces of the horrified mothers, Kehoe immediately grasped the lesson. “You can’t go to market with something that leaves that much color, even if it is washable,” he says. “It freaks people out.”
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