Researchers create Silly Putty lights, plan on making dollar bill impressions

Someday soon, the phrase "dripping with light" won't just be an abstruse lyric in a post-punk song you've written... light may actually be dripping on things. At least that's what researchers at Nikki Chemical Co. and the Nagoya Institute of Technology hope to see happening by 2010. The team of scientists has created a white, fluorescent material which can be used to create white light, yet can be molded into a number of shapes. The mushy lamps consist of an organic compound, which is coupled with ultraviolet light and a glasslike inorganic compound that gives the substance structural protection. The combo can handle temperatures to 500 degrees Celsius, uses half the power of typical fluorescent lights, and will last longer than white LEDs due to heat resistance. Also, did we mention it's like Silly Putty? [Warning: read link requires subscription]

[Adam B @ Apr 17th 2008 8:06AM]

You could get really creative with this stuff...

[StreetStealth @ Apr 17th 2008 11:31AM]

Aside from all the crazy things you could do with this, think for a second about this:

It's white light, right? Mold it into a rectangle and manufacture the thinnest, most perfectly even LCD backlight you've ever seen.

Note to Samsung, LG, Philips, etc... Plz get on this, k.

[payne @ Apr 17th 2008 8:10AM]

This is no different from the Super-Putty on the infomercials.

Scientists these days...

[AutoTom @ Apr 17th 2008 9:19AM]

i doubt this stuff is as delicious as super-putty

[Michael @ Apr 17th 2008 8:22AM]

That's really cool.

[Magallanes @ Apr 17th 2008 8:53AM]

Wow, dreams can fulfill, a shinny soap!.

:3

[601210 @ Apr 17th 2008 9:15AM]

That's hot.

[AutoTom @ Apr 17th 2008 9:18AM]

was that a my name is earl / paris hilton reference?

[AutoTom @ Apr 17th 2008 9:19AM]

freaking awesome, i can't wait to go to the doctor with this stuff oozing out of an open wound

[mark_s @ Apr 17th 2008 10:03AM]

It's actually not that cool at all, it's the lens flare playing mind tricks on you


Really, I want some

[Barbaric @ Apr 17th 2008 10:16AM]

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[Shawn @ Apr 17th 2008 10:33AM]

Oh, I see what you did there.

[BB Sting @ Apr 17th 2008 10:49AM]

I look forward to luminescent pait that I can put on my walls and turn on and off at will.

[Sakura3210 @ Apr 17th 2008 1:28PM]

I can't believe no one's said this yet:

Breast Implant :)

-Seriously though, sounds pretty cool

[blackfeather @ Apr 17th 2008 2:41PM]

all of the grade-schooler's "headlamp" puns would have a new and eerily appropriate meaning.

[namesbondjamesbond @ Apr 17th 2008 6:26PM]

Thought it was a pointless article until I read it. Looked like silly putty 2.0 form the headline. Seriously cool though.

[okTOMATO @ Apr 18th 2008 11:35AM]

When I was 4 years old, I put glow in the dark silly putty onto a hairclip and shoved it into an electrical socket to try and make a nightlight that I could stick on things. I knew I should have filed a patent after feeling returned to my body!