Colored bubbles?

Popular Science has an article detailing one mans obsession with coloring bubbles. As it turns out adding color to bubbles is very difficult thing to accomplish. After years of toiling away by a chemist and an inventor, colored bubbles will hit the store shelves soon (I know I will be keeping an eye out for them) in colors ranging from black to pink.
What I find exciting is the that the product development process (my guess is there were no ISO audits involved) required the invention of a new class of dies that disapears when exposed to oxygen or friction. So, in the end, while the goal was bubbles (a toy), the effort required the invention of something that is potentially far more useful than a novelty item.

Coolest thing I have seen all year

...and perfect for the brewer in your family..

http://turbotap.com/Products/

nod to autoprophet for pointing this one out.

New Blog

The lady brewer and I were watching "The Colber Report" last week and noticed that Michigan's Upper Peninsul is missing from a map where even Hawaii and Alaska are represented. There's no comment section anywhere I could find so I went to the Comedy Central blog and piped up. I decided at that point, to continue spoofing and created a blog in the same vein. I will be looking for contributors so if you'd like to volunteer please let me know.