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Article: General Innovation: A FUEL-CELL MOTORCYCLE, THE FASTEST BEER TAP, AN EXPLOSION-PROOF GARBAGE CAN.(Best Of What's New 2005)(Column)
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- Popular Science
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- December 1, 2005
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Byline: Jenny Everett; Mike Haney; Gregory Mone; Steve Morgenstern; Jen Trolio
ASCADIA ZUBBLES
SOAP BUBBLES: NOW IN COLOR!
You may think you've seen these before, but you haven't. Although traditional clear soap bubbles give you a rainbow effect in the right light, Zubbles are the first truly colored bubbles--nearly opaque, with a single vibrant hue. The problem, which took Minnesota toy inventor Tim Kehoe more than 10 years to solve, was to create a dye that could not only tint the thin wall of a soap bubble but that wouldn't leave a stain when the bubble broke. His solution: invent an entirely new dye that simply disappears. Agitation ...