Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 11, 2021

Actually, I’d buy something that made a drink appear to be radioactive.

Can you say “PLASTICS”?

We have several large acrylic glasses that are more than five years old, with flashing lights that still work.

I got an insulated mug at the 2007 Musikfest in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. It had flashing LED lights.

In California, everything gives you cancer

Are we supposed to be getting health/medical advice from someone who thinks radioactive materials glow/twinkle in daylight?

The Pontiac Aztec comes to mind of a really stupid idea making it into production!

Use a Peltier device across the inner and outer walls of the tumbler to power the LEDs whenever a hot or cold liquid is added. It’ll suck the heat out of your coffee faster, but it’ll look cool.

“you’ve come a long way, Baby…”

Ummm … cigarettes?

Tie it to a science fiction franchise. Use it to serve a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3973tfsllqw

Make it an insulated mug with transparent outer shell. Put twinkling LED lights in between the two layers, so the lights can be battery powered. Add a handle so your hand doesn’t hide the lights. Use white LED lights in the top so you can see to drink. Include a 400 lumen LED light in the cup bottom as a flashlight.

I don’t see anything wrong with this idea.

Roundup !!

I keep my Nuclear Coffee in an unobtanium cup just to cut back on the glow

I’ve got drink coasters (not glasses) that look like the periodic-chart symbols for radium (88), thorium (90), uranium (92), and plutonium (94). They each glow in a different color when you place something on them. I’m pretty sure that’s done with LEDs, not the actual elements in question.

I would think it would be unhealthy to see Brems radiation, but I have seen the pretty glow of Cherenkov radiation in a reactor pool.

You need actual full spectrum sunlight to treat S.A.D. girlie. I don’t think LEDs are going to slve that.

Now your mug of coffee can cure your SAD – AND give you seizures!

yep

Cold cuts are a cancer risk due to how they are processed.

And people still USE things that they KNOW significantly increase their chance of getting cancer, how stupid is that? Or rather, sad that they have gotten hooked on something so hard to quit. (Try RU Recovery https://rurecovery.com/ )

I had a radioactive watch back in the 70s

I think a lot of people would pay good money for a light-up mug, for all kinds of reasons. Including being able to pretend they were drinking radioactive slime. ;-)

But yeah, people absolutely buy things that cause cancer, and I’m not just talking about cigarettes and alcohol and so forth. People still pay money to go to “health spas” that feature underground passages so they can soak in the “healthful” radon gas. Seriously. I mean, I could sort of understand that a century ago, but it baffles me that some people still think radon gas might be good for you.

IT probably depends on what color the LED is – in principle it might work.

Risk vs. benefit.

Thanks, but I have no desire to be buried in a lead coffin.

And thus Facebook is born.