Science: Body: Skin: Sun Protection
Self-Adjusting Sunscreen   (+4, -3)  [vote for, against]
Auto-Dimming particles in lotion

We have glasses and welder's masks that auto-dim to shade the eyes from harmful light. Couldn't one apply the same principal to sunscreen so that it allowed a constant amount of light to the skin? Could you also apply this to paint? This would allow for different pictures for different light levels.
-- Holeinmysock, Mar 22 2006

Halfbakery: Sun tan lotion that tans itself Sun_20tan_20lotion_20that_20tans_20itself
Talks about those auto-adjusting sunglasses - is that the same idea? [jutta, Mar 24 2006]

Nanoparticle Sunscreen http://www.sciam.co...DF-32AE048E858F385C
Sunscreen that adjusts itself has been created. [Holeinmysock, Aug 25 2007]

Self-Adjusting Sunscreen in sport: sliding category? Croissant just for that.
-- methinksnot, Mar 22 2006


Fixed, now in a category where someone will find it.
-- sartep, Mar 24 2006


didn't you here him?? He gave you a croissant for that!!??
-- the fiddler, Mar 24 2006


Croissant withdrawn as daft category choice has been corrected to unimaginative one.
-- methinksnot, Mar 24 2006


mts(runny user)gives + for category
someone sharp puts idea in a better place
mts(runny user<offers tissue>)withdraws +
this place is mad.

why don't annos get things shifting like they used to?
-- po, Mar 24 2006


Sometimes there's just not much to say. It's a sunscreen that self-adjusts, based on a technology the poster doesn't understand.
-- Worldgineer, Mar 24 2006


<takes tissue>
<blows nose, again>
<winks and smiles at [po]>
<gives a knowing nod to [Worldgineer]>
-- methinksnot, Mar 24 2006


[fiddler] Please stop complaining.
-- DesertFox, Mar 25 2006


/why don't annos get things shifting like they used to/

24's on in five minutes <flattened by massive stampede>
-- egbert, Mar 28 2006


Is this magic? I thinkthis is magic. Maybe not the science or the process, but the application of the process.
-- PollyNo9, Mar 28 2006


For those of you who doubted,

www.sciam.com, and search for "sunscreen"

or, I added a link for you =)
-- Holeinmysock, Aug 25 2007



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