This is really cool and I think I may try it. However, I do have one suggestion: dump out what you have in there and make a new mixture with tonic water instead. Tonic water contains quinine. Even in small concentrations, quinine (and thus tonic water) will fluoresce in UV radiation, including direct sunlight. Tonic water is also carbonated, which makes sense for a soda pop. Finally, should you ever actually wish to drink it, tonic water with some food coloring in it is perfectly safe, unlike I'd assume highlighter ink is.

i think ive made a quantum and its edible it looks like quantum all i used was neon color dye but it has to be not even a drop it has to be like a quarter of a drop but the glow part i need something for and you can add water or gingerale i did gingerale and then drank it

First, I want to say - excellent work, it's a very nice finished product.

But, if you're open to ideas for a "Version 2.0" ...?

Consider modifying the bottle itself in order to more effectively disperse/diffuse the light throughout the liquid.

One possible way is to drill a hole in the bottom, and insert a glass rod - affixing it, and sealing the hole, with a heat-resistant epoxy (one that bonds well to glass). This would provide a simple channel that the lgiht could move through, and higher into the liquid medium.

Another, less-simple solution involves LEDs, fiber-optics, and a control circuit. The fiber-optics would be arranged to evenly distribute light throughout the bottle ... and the control circuit could give a semi-random "flux"/flow to the light emission (by using multiple LEDs as the light source). The fiber-optics would be inserted through a hole in teh bottom of the bottle, just like the idea above.

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For the liquid medium, I think you may have a long-term problem crop up. Mainly, I'm concerned about all the sugar in the liquid. Since you weren't working in a biological clean room, it's pretty likely that the sugar in that stuff will cause problems of the "oh look, a mold colony" variety. Straight-up colored water would likely be a better choice, IMO.

That is awesome! Haha damn now I want to make one for myself, and I would definitely consider _Pax_'s idea for making the light distribute more evenly throughout the bottle to make it look a bit more authentic.

I remember you mentioning that this could be an epic win. And you were right!!

I agree, like the comment on youtube- epic win!

Dude, that is awesome, too bad the paper around the bottle has creases in it though. But still very cool!!

I would imagine that any highlighter would work, although I can't confirm.. But the one that I have seen are really cool looking, Definately worth a try.. And from what I remember the color was almost exactly the same as the pen... But yeah definately don't drink...

I respect you!

I want to drink it!!!! Kudos man great job! :tops:

I'm now currently making my own to see what it's like. I bought a six pack of glass bottles of Coke, so I may make a full set if I find the time. I also plan to make what goes in the bottle drinkable. We'll see how this ends up.

You should seriously make a small run of these.

e-bay those bad boys, and let a few dollars roll in.

I'd buy it. Put's my real lava lamp to shame.

In the mean time, I'm tempted to start one as well. That says alot about your idea, because I'm a lazy bastard, lol!

Wow, you sir, are artistic :bowdown:

Okay, mine are coming along quite well so far. I'm still trying to come up with a proper mixture for the Quantum. I know that Quantum should basically tasty like fruit, but should also be very sweet and have other crap to also make it high energy. It also glows, so I'm adding tonic water. That'll let it glow in intense sunlight or under a blacklight because of the quinine. Oh, and it's a bluish purpley color. Finally, it makes your piss glow for like a week. Oh, and one more thing: it's pop, so it's carbonated.

So far, I'm trying Blue Demon Full Throttle mixed with Pomegranate Blueberry V-Fusion, tonic water, and 5-Hour Energy. The Full Throttle and tonic water make it lightly carbonated. Full Throttle and V-Fusion gives it the color and flavor. Full Throttle and 5-Hour Energy give it crazy energy levels and the B vitamins in both will make your piss highlighter yellow for a couple days. I'm thinking this should work pretty well and it as close to Quantum as I feel like getting without actually irradiating myself.

EDIT: Ugh... the most annoyingly time consuming part is scraping these glass bottles all clean. Add to that the fact that I really don't want to svck down six 8-ounce bottles all at once and this may take a while.

EDIT 2: Wow! Nuka Cola is supposed to be a fruit flavored cola. To emulate this, I tried mixing the Coka Cola with a small amount of Pomegranate Blueberry V-Fusion. Holy crap, this stuff is incredible. I'd believe it if something like this got released and really "quickly became America's number one soft drink."

EDIT 3: Okay, these babies are done. I have six Nuka Cola Quantum bottles filled and recapped. I left off the back label on all of bottles because bottles in the game don't actually have a back label. The mixture I stuck in the bottles actually does taste something like downing a mouthful of sugar and then punching yourself in the head, so I figure I got it right. It's actually pretty good on top of being a massive rush of energy. Seriously though, my head is spinning from this stuff, so it certainly has the same effect as the Quantum in the game would. The total mixture that was divided into the six bottles (with some left over so I could taste it) was this:
- Three 16 oz. Bottles of Blue Demon Full Throttle
- About 2 oz. or so of Pomegranate Blueberry V-Fusion (add enough to get the color right, and it adds the pomegranate flavor Quantum is known for as well as other fruits).
- About an ounce of tonic water. This adds a slightly bitter taste that offsets the sugar, plus it should hopefully now glow in UV light.
- One 5-Hour Energy drink. This adds energy and B vitamins to give you glowing piss.

Divide that into the 8 oz. bottles in equal amounts, crimp the caps down to size, and then forcefully shove them back on to the bottles. After that, go back and touch up the silver Sharpie that you probably rubbed off the caps and you're done.

I'll add pictures in a second, but this stuff has given me a headache so give me a second.

Nice man, they sell that stuff right next to my dorm, maybe I'll check out the flavor.

Also, you can always crimp the cap around the top of the bottle, rather than trying to push it on afterward.

Crimping the cap after putting it on doesn't seal it correctly. I had to use very thin needle nose pliers to pull each crimping back down before shoving the cap back on. This finally gave me bottles that no longer hissed as they lost their carbonation. I mean, I'm sure they still are slightly losing carbonation because I don't actually own a bottle cap crimping tool, but I did the best I could and I plan to have these all gone tomorrow anyway. Oh, and I still have a headache from this stuff. It may be the quantum, it may be a placebo effect, or it may be the five (I gave away one) 8 oz. Cokes I just downed before doing all this so I could have the bottles.

Here are the pictures. It's almost midnight here (EDT), so I can't see if they glow in direct sunlight. Likely it won't give them enough UV radiation, but I think my brother has a blacklight at his house (which is a one minute walk away), so I'll see if they really do glow tomorrow.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v464/sushisquid/quantum1.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v464/sushisquid/quantum2.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v464/sushisquid/quantum3.png

Image tags don't seem to be working on them, so hopefully you've all got Text-To-Image or something. Or you can just copy/paste the link and change the number.

Thanks alot! I may try this later on when i have time.

Lol thanks, but i think i will just let people make their own.


Thankyou!



Awsome! your one will probably be a whole lot better than mine.



Looks awsome.

You, T51-b are an amazing marvel and perhaps some sort of god. It needed to be said (I'm also awful at D.T so that may skew my reasoning) but good show my friend, sterling work.

I love lamp. . . I love lamp!

Have a cookie :cookie:

that's awesome, you should use it as an avatar

thats freaking sweet. id pay for one of those in a second

Those things were actually pretty good the day after, but two days after when I finished the rest, they were totally flat. Still, they give you a nice rush.

Thankyou!! whats DT btw, i probably know but jog my memory.



LOL thats anchorman yes?



BUT I LOVE MY AVATAR!! :rolleyes: I stole it though



YAY, you dont have to though, you can make them using the instructions if you want.



Cool lol, i think all nuka cola is flat in the wasteland.

Tonic water, Highlighter and blacklight eh?