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Drop This Watch Covered in the World’s Blackest Paint at Night and You May Never Find It Again
As feature-rich smartwatches continue to steal buyers away, the makers of traditional mechanical watches continue to hunt for ways to make their timepieces a unique and compelling alternative. But do you really want a watch completely covered in Vantablack paint that could easily go missing in the dark?
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Apple Patent Suggests It’s Borrowing Some Vantablack Tricks for Black MacBooks
Before it started making all of its laptops out of aluminium, Apple offered MacBooks with a matte black finish that, so far, has been challenging to reproduce on its all metal computers. But a new patent suggests Apple has come up with a way to give its latest MacBooks a matte black finish using a…
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Museum Visitor Falls Into Giant Hole That Looks Like A Cartoonish Painting On The Floor
Like a real-life version of a Looney Tunes cartoon, a visitor to a Portuguese museum was injured last week when he stepped into an art installation resembling an inky void. Currently on exhibit at the Serralves Museum in Porto, Descent Into Limbo by Anish Kapoor includes an actual 2.5m hole that’s painted black — so…
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The War Over The World’s Darkest Pigment Got Even More Ridiculous
Vantablack is an incredible material. It’s so dark it reflects nearly no light. This has made it appealing to black light fans, scientists and very clever artists. But a disagreement over which artists should have access to the pigment started a war in February. Over the weekend, two of the main players in that battle…