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New, Self-Erasing Ink Created

In the near future, spies and top-secret agencies could have a lot to benefit from a new class of nanoparticle inks that was just created. Messages written with the new substance have a tendency to make themselves invisible, when viewed by suspicious strangers. The innovation, created by experts at the Northwestern U...

27 August 2009
02:09 GMT

Experts Find 150-Million-Year-Old Squid Ink

While digging for fossils in the town of Chippenham, Wiltshire, in the United Kingdom, archaeologists stumbled upon the preserved remains of a squid, estimated to have lived some 150 million years ago. Inside it, much to their amazement, experts discovered ink. The substance was so well maintained, that its finders c...

20 August 2009
09:09 GMT

How Battery Testers Work

Personally, I've never seen such a device in action; to be more precise, I've never seen one at all! The only time I observed a battery tester was some years ago on a counterfeit battery that had one imprinted on it. I mean its image, not the actual device. Battery testers have been eluding me for some time...

8 April 2008
06:10 GMT

World's First Eyeball Tattoo!

Skin tattoos are obsolete. Even savage tribes in the jungle can do them. But this new tattoo reinforces the idea that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Imagination gone wild (or wrong?) has come with the world's first ever eyeball tattoo. Now, those dreaming on having blue eyes can do it. The procedure chang...

29 February 2008
14:06 GMT

The Newest Tool for Fighting Counterfeit Money - as Seen on "CSI: New York"

One of the most interesting and recently used methods of counterfeiting US dollars is to bleach the ink off the $5 bills and to print them with as $100 bills. The Treasury has only recently considered redesigning those bills to prevent the sudden "multiplication" of Ben Franklin.A new technique has now been created ...

19 July 2007
10:18 GMT

The First Permanent Yet Removable Tattoo Ever Created

Good news for all those who were thinking of getting a tattoo but were too afraid of having to explain to their future children what's with the flaming skull on their arm: the first permanent, removable tattoo was developed by a team of scientists. Most tattoos are made in times when teens or adults want to pro...

12 July 2007
03:32 GMT

How to Remove Unwanted Tattoos

You were young (and foolish) and you wanted a tattoo to prove your independence or to make a statement. Now you're older (hopefully wiser too) and think about removing them, so you won't have to explain to your children what's with the naked lady on your arm.Many people decide to have a tattoo as a sy...

2 July 2007
09:49 GMT


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