I’m not sure either, I just overlooked the glow in the dark thing, I think an edit would have been the way to go haha.
Good there’s an undelete feature 
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I don’t Instagram so well… I click the menu and share and copy link and post here and it no workie. Whatever Instagram… you suck.
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What I’m thinking about - the glow powder looks quite powerful, do you know how well it will work under the skin? Skin absorbs a freakin lot of glow-in-the-dark-stuff…^^
True but elsewhere on the forum I did a side to side comparison between the glow powder and xGLO tritium vial and the powder out performed the tritium for quite a while… on phone so I can’t find easily right now…
Found it…
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Any luck with any trials?
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Amal, speaking of lab ideas, I understand you offer making a custom implant out of something as a service - i.e. encasing it in your magic putty. Usually a chip and antenna that’s been acetoned out of a credit card, but could be anything. Correct?
Could you give some guidelines for what would be a good candidate device, such as maximum width/length/thickness, hardness/flexibility, usable materials…? I have a few simple ideas involving off-the-shelf electronic components, but if you can’t encase them or you don’t think it’s safe, there’s no point in making a prototype.
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I’d take the pegleg as the current upper boundary on size. That’s one of the largest currently. And I’m referring to 1.0 the full size router one that Lepht got.
I was more thinking in terms of a serious, safe, long-term implant, rather than a stunt.
How well do you anticipate the glow powder would charge with UV light through the skin?
I’ve got an idea that involves 2 colours of glow (either glow powder or just a UV fluorescent powder even if it doesn’t glow once out of UV)
Basically similar to Haworth’s glow implants, but low profile so it’s not visible outside of UV light, possibly encapsulated with a flexMT or something of the like
I’ve got such an implant (and I love it, yes^^), it has healed enough to glow very nice during the night (so “UV-charging” with daylight works fine).
Some time ago, I bought a (pretty cheap…) UV-flashlight, simply to show it off during daytime, and your post reminded me to try that out again. It makes my UV-nailpolish shine a LOT. It makes my old glow-in-the-dark-lightswitch glow a lot. It doesn’t do anything at all with my implant 
Okay, the implant is nearly 8 weeks old now, maybe in a few month, it will work with it… but until now, I’d say I either got a very bad flashlight or the UV-rays don’t make their way through skin well enough.
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Is you implant fluorescent or phosporescent? The former transforms UV into visible light (but doesn’t glow on its own) while the latter “charges up” on visible light and re-emits it in the dark, but does not involve UVs. Only the latter is called “glow in the dark”.
From what you describe, your implant is phosphorescent (it must be because UVs don’t reach under the skin), while your nail polish is fluorescent.
You will more likely burn your skin if you keep trying to use a UV light to charge it. The uv light would have to be in the implant.
I am not sure how I would feel if it wasn’t all covered by resin either. Don’t need internal cancer growing.
Yes it is, but usually those glow-in-the-dark-thingies glow quite a lot when exposed to a UV-lamp of some sort, that’s why I tried my flashlight on the lightswitch as well - it’s one of those 70s-switches that glow in the dark, so you can find it when you want to raid your kitchen at night.
I just wanted to make the point that UV-activated glow powder might not work well under the skin, while simple phosphorescent stuff definitely works.
That’s what I thought, and what might be difficult - there are UV-LEDs, but I’m really not sure if those should be implanted… the skin is (amongst other useful things) there to protect us from UV-rays, might be not so good to have them inside.
At the moment there are some significant limitations to the material I use when it comes to larger devices, and the materials I would likely use for larger devices have their own issues. One of the biggest issues for most materials is actually water absorption and saturation. Some of the toughest resins turn to rubber when exposed to water long enough. It makes encapsulation of larger devices for permanent implantation difficult.
Of course it could be explored, and I would totally walk down this path with you, but my creative spurts here in the lab were really just a matter of shaking off the cobwebs and flexing those creative muscles one last time before deep diving into the next product development cycle. This next one is a big deal and I won’t be doing much of anything else for a while, particularly in the lab. These things I posted here were things I tinkered on here and there for a while and these are the results, of which I’m still not sure will make it on to The Lab product page or not.
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Okay thanks. Sounds like I probably should leave you be for your next projects instead of wasting your time
definitely not a waste of time… just need to prioritize. I put some notes together on other encapsulation ideas to follow up on when I have a chuck of “creative time” available to me.
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