Colored Bubbles

So I was poking around some old websites that I had in my favorites from my high school days when I actually had time to surf the internet. I came across this website, which was always awesome because this guy did things that appealed to my engineering brain and also were just plain cool. He covers topics from chocolate and writing to gardening and home made kites with wingspans of 44 feet. I was poking around through his "insane projects" page, found here, when I came across his awesome idea of adding smoke and helium to bubbles. This is a really cool idea and I wonder why it hasn't really caught on, maybe because Wayne just does this stuff for fun and hasn't caught the entrepreneurship bug.



So while thinking about bubbles I remembered vaguely an article I had read a long time about about colored bubbles. After some googling I found the site that sells them, here, and then I found the article I read, here. This article really talks about how this guy spent a lot of time, 11 years, and money, $500k, to finally realize his dream. It also talks a little bit about how he approached companies and had to sometimes put his dream of creating colored bubbles on the back burner to focus on keeping his life together.

I really enjoyed this article the first time I read it and the second time was just as good, if not better, now that I'm in 407. If you have a few minutes you should check it out. I know that I'm wondering how he made that bouncing bubble.