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I have a "cool mist vaporizer" which I use to keep the air in my 6-month-old daughter's room from being too dry. I also have a battery-operated bubble machine which I use on occasion to make her smile. The vaporizer works as you would expect, it pours out a visible stream of vaporized water into the
air. The bubble machine works similarly; upon pulling a trigger, it lofts a continuous stream of bubbles, each about 5 cm in diameter.
It seems to me that kids would -really- enjoy a bubble machine that puffed out vapor-filled bubbles. The bubbles would seem that much more magical if they dissipated into a puff of "smoke" upon popping.
This device would need two reservoirs, one for the tap water to be vaporized, and another for the bubble solution.
Note: After half-baking this idea, I have discovered that a similar device is in existence (the "vapo-blaster"), but it requires a special "vapor fluid" rather than normal tap water. The proposed device serves both as a child's toy, and as a utilitarian household vaporizer
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At 6 your daughter will not be too upset if you disassemble these two things in the name of scientific endeavor. I recommend you loop the theme to A-team as you do it. Make bubbles with vapor. Yes, yes! |
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A smoke bomb, as those in the know know, will do fine under water. Add dishwashing detergent or bubble soap and there you have it: Colored smoke bubbles! |
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What bungston would really enjoy is a video showing a bubble maker that makes oxyacetylene filled bubbles, which are then detonated by a spark thrower. Second best is a video of someone farting underwater in a bubbly tub, then igniting fart bubbles with a cigarette in a long Audrey Hepburn-style holder. |
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