In 2005 I wrote a profile
of an old friend, Tim Kehoe, a toy inventor who’d spent 10 years trying
to solve what should be an easy problem: How do you make colored soap
bubbles that don’t stain whatever they break on? If you’re thinking,
“Oh that’s easy, just do X,” you’re wrong. Tim tried X. Didn’t work. In
fact, it blew up the kitchen and permanently colored the dog.
But as of today, you can buy his colored bubbles, called Zubbles, at zubbles.com and through his iPhone app.
And even if you’re not a bubble man, these things will blow your mind.
Thanks to some seriously novel chemistry, the stain they appear to
leave when they break vanishes in seconds. If only he could make pizza
sauce do the same thing.
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