Cool Ultraviolet Stuff – Things That Glow in Black Light

A black light looks dark purple. Most of the light it emits is in the ultraviolet (UV) range of the spectrum, invisible to the human eye.  Listed below are some cool stuff that glows under a black light or ultraviolet light.

Ultraviolet Tattoos

UV tattoos use blacklight reactive ink to illuminate the images. A UV tattoo becomes visible under blacklight. It glows in colors ranging from white to purple, depending on the ink chosen. Colored ink is also available that is visible in normal light but the ink glows vividly under UV light. However, some UV inks are not as bright under normal light as normal tattoo ink and are considered not as vibrant.

Ultraviolet Contact Lenses

Get the coolest look in town with UV reactive contact lenses that look great by day and stunning under UV light.

Ultraviolet Book

Despite the crisis, Adris Group had a successful business year in 2008. So, they wanted to show it off with their annual report. During difficult times, only good ideas can light up the path out of the crisis. Ideas are energy! They emerge in a moment and spread at the speed of thoughts while people channel them. Ideas are passed on from person to person until their radiance becomes powerful enough to light up the future.

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Adris Group has more than 3,000 such lights – its employees. Each one of them can come up with an idea that can make the world better. But it is only when they all come together with a single goal that the power of their ideas becomes capable of shattering the darkness. That is why this book glows in the dark – it is charged with over 3,000 good ideas!

Ultraviolet Jeans

These jeans will glow intensely under UV light (aka Blacklight). So if you wear the jeans in a club, the color of your pants will turn into a cool neon green.

Ultraviolet Bubbles

Tekno Bubbles contain special patented compounds with molecules that emit visible light after absorbing light from an ultraviolet source. When the ultraviolet photons enter fluorescent molecules, some of the light’s energy causes the molecules to vibrate. When the light re-emerges, it has less energy and is now within the spectrum of visible light, which in turn causes Tekno Bubbles to glow in either blue or gold.

Ultraviolet Restaurant

A theatrical extravaganza of sequential dishes and multi-sensory experiences, Paul Pairet’s futuristic Ultraviolet Restaurant turns the very idea of conceptual dining on its head. The room, a blank canvas devoid of emotive artwork and distracting views, hides a wealth of high-end projectors, lighting rigs and wind machines vital to the table show, scheduled to begin at exactly 7.30 pm.

Guests are led in semi-darkness to a single solitary table, flanked by five chairs on either side. Once seated, the immersive culinary theatre is brought to life by the amusingly ironic opening sequence to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Led by an extravagant “Avant-Garde” menu of 20 courses, the dining area is transformed into a 360-degree theatre of projections, including a billowing tornado of smoke and cigar ash (timed to coincide with your first bite into a foie gras cigarette), and Pop Rock Oysters, teamed with a 60’s wallpaper of music icons, brand names and 20th Century inventions. Paired with the tangy aromas of cigar smoke, earth and ocean breezes, Pairet creates a modal experience of “psycho-tasting” that could very well challenge the future of fine dining as we know it.

UV Toilet Paper

Now you’ll no longer struggle to relieve yourself during those half-awake bathroom visits in the middle of the night; thanks to glow-in-the-dark toilet paper. Functional and fun, you’ll know you’re getting a complete wipe when the toilet paper stops glowing.

UV Tennis shoes

We all know Kanye West’s nickname is Yeezy. He teamed up with Nike a few years ago to create some new designs for kicks, one of which is the Nike Air Yeezy Glow in the Dark sneakers which I think are way cool. The bottom lights up as well as the Nike logo.

UV Candy

“Instructables” user, Britt Michelsen, experimented with fluorescent materials, including riboflavin. She decided to use it to make food that looks like kryptonite. Michelsen made a mold out of aluminum foil, cooked riboflavin into sugar, and poured it into the mold. The result was a glowing candy that looked quite like the lethal substance in the Superman mythos.