Colored Bubbles
Posted on November 17, 2005 Comments (3)
The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Colored Bubbles by Mike Haney, Popular Science.
Colored soap bubbles! Of course! Everyone loves blowing bubbles. It seemed such a simple and perfect idea, the kind that would leave other inventors slapping their foreheads and saying Why didn’t I think of that? Kehoe says, “I remember walking down to the store thinking, ‘This is so easy. I’m going to be rich!’ “
Well, rich maybe, but not so easy.
The long years of desk jobs and desperate late-night experiments were finally over. He had done what the toy companies had told him to, and now it didn’t matter what they thought. He had his own well-financed company and a washable bubble. It was time to tell the world.
Photo gallery and movie of the colored bubbles.
Popular Science Grand Award for General Innovation
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