youtube.com - 10/22/2008
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Check out Wired.com's exhaustive Sticky-Tape X-Ray Machine coverage:http://snurl.com/4luyjhttp://snurl.com/4luyvWhen pulled apart, sticky tape generates elec...
blog.wired.com - 10/22/2008
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blog.wired.com —
Sometimes, the journal Nature shines a light on
a strange, dust-mitey corner of science, and you find...
yourself staring at an unimaginably weird creature/experiment. In today's issue, they dedicate several pages to the odd story of a couple of guys...
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Video: The Scotch-Tape X-Ray Machine
ohgizmo.com - 10/23/2008
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By Evan Ackerman I have no idea who
comes up with this stuff, but researchers at UCLA...
have apparently constructed a machine that takes X-rays images using a roll of Scotch tape being peeled up as a radiation source. Seriously, that’s all ...
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Science Thursday: X-Ray Yourself With Scotch Tape
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Researchers Build X-Ray Machine With Scotch Tape [Scotch-tape]
Gizmodo —
More than 50 years ago, Russian scientists discovered that simple Scotch tape emits x-rays when peeled off glass. New research conducted by colleagues at UCLA has determined that the power that the tape generates is much higher than anyone could have imagined. In fact, they have constructed a machine that generates x-rays by peeling up Scotch tape in a vacuum at the rate of 3 centimeters per second. As you can see in the recent demo they did for the journal Nature, their device was able to successfully generate an x-ray of a finger. The researchers believe that this "technology" could ...
Science Thursday: X-Ray Yourself With Scotch Tape
OhGizmo! —
By Evan Ackerman
I have no idea who comes up with this stuff, but researchers at UCLA have apparently constructed a machine that takes X-rays images using a roll of Scotch tape being peeled up as a radiation source. Seriously, that’s all there is to it: put a roll of tape in a vacuum, slowly unpeel it, and if you stick your finger on the thing with some film behind it, you’ll give yourself an honest-to-goodness x-ray.
What seems to happen is that as the tape unsticks itself, electrons jump from the roll to the sticky side of the tape that is being pulled away. When they hit the tape, they slow down a bunch, ...
Scotch Tape X-Ray Is Almost DIY
GEARFUSE —
Researchers at UCLA have constructed a machine that takes X-ray images using a roll of Scotch tape . When pulled apart, tape generates electromagnetic waves through simple friction. The researchers discovered in a vacuum, sticky tape also sends out strong enough X-rays to image your finger. Pretty neat, considering getting your hands on some Scotch tape isn’t too hard. Imagine if giving yourself an X-ray were as easy as purchasing Scotch tape. It’d be X-rays for everyone! Unfortunately, it only works in a vacuum which crushes any hopes we have of DIYing our own X-rays . What a drag. Link [ via ]
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Origami Sticky Notes: Japanese Post-it Folding Art
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Learn the traditional Japanese art of origami when you should be working thanks to these new sticky notes . There are 100 notes to a pack and each features instructions on how to transform the note into a simple origami model.
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yankodesign.com 10/8/2009 — So you say you need a portable x-ray machine. Well. Let me tell you about this particular one. It’s called “RAY”, it’s designed by Cavallius Design group, and it’s just so very compact. Let’s say you’re on a ...
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