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Showing posts with label Glow-in-the-Dark Skyaak. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Glow-in-the-Dark Skyaak. Show all posts

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Skyaak UltraGlow

I'm proud to personally introduce to you my latest glow innovation, hot off the press... the Skyaak UltraGlow!


This ultimate glow-in-the-dark Skyaak can be charged naturally by the power of the sun (or a powerful lightbulb), and then tossed around in the dark where it can be seen by all. With all throwing partners wearing a glow bracelet, it becomes trivial to aim the Skyaak where it needs to go, and the glow-in-the-dark material inside the shaft will identify the Skyaak's position in the air.

However, that's just the tip of the iceberg!

Switch on the dual UV LED feature, and all of a sudden the ENTIRE SKYAAK lights up vibrantly! The UV LEDs vigorously radiate light out from all directions, and the Skyaak is instantly transformed into a psychedelic uber-luminescent flying toy! This latest Skyaak UltraGlow is sure to turn heads!

It actually glows so brightly that it throws off enough green-luminescent light to light up an entire picnic table. In other words, it can now be used as a lamp and doubles as a rugged high-performance flying toy! How cool is that??

I have taken a short video of the Skyaak UltraGlow in action. Suffice to say, the camera doesn't even come close to doing it justice. I will try to get a better video up soon, so you can see this AMAZING glowing toy in it's true glory!

Click
HERE to view the video on YouTube.

Stay tuned for your upcoming opportunity to order one of these amazing units!

Monday, February 26, 2007

Skyaak Gets a Glow-On!

Glow-in-the-Dark Skyaak!





Jesse and Dylan Cooke dropped over last night. Dylan was brimming over with excitement. He has created the first Skyaak hack-in kit, and it is a doozer! A little while ago, Dylan and I were playing around with the idea of building a glow-in-the-dark kit that could just be plugged into the existing Skyaak chassis. Well folks, our brilliant young engineer has done it! All ya gotta do is insert the pre-built unit into the rear-end of your Skyaak shaft. It replaces the end-cap. And then you have an outside on-off switch that lets you convert your Skyaak to an awesome glow-in-the-dark unit that you can play around with in sheer darkness.




Dylan has built a sweet little unit that incorporates a switch, the retrofitted end-cap, a little power-plant, a tiny resistor, and a black-light LED. When you switch it on, the rear ring-wing glows like crazy, and the G-Force pods do too. The first pod looks like a little free-floating full-moon in the shaft, and it transmits its bright glow to its neighbor, and that pod passes a diminished light signal along to its neighbor. The effect is just stunning. When the lit-up pods fly through the glow-in-the-dark tape circles that we made to stick each side of the foam hand-grips, the tape circles pulse with a bright light that is supplied by the pods passing through! And when the pods rush to the front, their light transfers an ethereal glow to the front ring-wing. WOW! It is a very dynamic action that shows a direct cause and effect visual treat. But hey, don’t take my word for it. Check out the photo montage that shows the glow-in-the-dark Skyaak from different angles:


These photos are so cool that I can't resist posting another one. A close up so you see how stunning it looks:

Bet you've never seen anything like THIS before!


How about this?





Dylan said that he really enjoyed figuring this out, but more importantly, he emphasized how excited he was to dig in and get the thing engineered. He said that it was like a concrete example of coming up with an idea and then doing something about it that he could be proud of. We just talked about this about two weeks ago and he has now followed through with the inspiration. He told me that he got a lot of satisfaction out of taking the concrete steps toward accomplishing this very cool hack-in project: