Glow in the Dark Paint

This is super cool.  If you have a spare wall in your home, grab a bucket of Glow in the Dark paint and put it in your wall, grab a UV-LED flashlight and be prepared to be amused for hours.  If you have very light or white wall the paint color will blend relatively well with the original color.  The painting process is simple:  put on 2 coats of white primer, 3 coats of the glow-in-the-dark paint and 2 layers of optional varnish (if you are afraid of your kids scraping off the paint).

PaulBo at the blog, Fangletronics, figured out a way to put together P small UV-LED light pens cobbled together from some small LED key chain flashlights, coin cell batteries, and a soldering iron. If you don’t want to hassle building them, then the LED flashlights will work fine but the glow just won’t last as long.

Another cool trick is to have someone stand in front of the wall and then take a flash picture.  You then get the resulting silhouette on the wall:

You may find Benjamin Moore’s Glow in the Dark Paint at your local Hirshfield’s store: 10 Twin Cities locations.