Flexiglow UV Reactive Neon Paint 127
VL is running a review of (no I'm not kidding) UV Reflective Paint for whatever sort of artistic case design aspirations you might have. Various colors and some bad photos make me kind of wonder about the whole thing, but perhaps others have more informed thoughts...
UV warning system (Score:4, Informative)
UV leads to eye damage. (cateracts?)
Plus there's skin cancer, your furniture fading...
Re:What's so amazing about this? (Score:2, Informative)
Re:I have to ask (Score:5, Informative)
They may not know the birthdate of Alexander Hamilton, but Wikipedia does have an article [wikipedia.org] on ultraviolet light and its health effects.
Why yes (Score:3, Informative)
its not cheap but it can be done [fxsupply.com]
Re:the laws (Score:1, Informative)
Re:UV exposure = Risk of cataracts, melanoma (Score:4, Informative)
You are spreading dangerous misinformation. You say that exposure to "regular light" will give you cataracts and skin cancer too. So what IS "regular light?" Stuff that comes out of incandescent bulbs? Nope. Full spectrum sunlight? Yeah, that will give you problems, because it has UV in it too. It's the UV light, not visible spectrum light, that will give you skin cancer and cataracts.
There is no difference whatsoever between the commercial UV rigs I used and the "recreational" UV lamps, except in intensity. The spectra are almost identical. I use an array of 6 "recreational" UV tubes to expose the same narrow-spectrum UV sensitive plates I used in the pro lab, except it takes 15 minutes to expose the plates instead of 2 minutes. I guarantee you that these "recreational" UV tubes are just as dangerous as the high-intensity rigs, in fact, the "recreational" tubes might be MORE dangerous, because idiots like YOU think they're safe and thus they have more cumulative exposure with no precautions whatsoever.
I realize this is slashdot, and every idiot thinks their opinion is correct, but I remind you, UV systems are an area where I have professional expertise and you don't know jack shit about them compared to me. So just SHUT the FUCK up, and quit telling people these lamps are safe, unless you want to be personally responsible for giving people skin cancer and cataracts. YOU are a health risk, if you spread incorrect information that would encourage people to take stupid, unnecessary risks.
Highlighters (Score:2, Informative)