Dude, guys, you're not going to freaking believe this. Check this out! Oh my god, it works so good. My car just went from midlife crisis mobile to midlife crisis mobile that freaking glows today. In partnership with BBR, we're announcing the most high-tech skin

they have ever concocted in three different color ways: glow, dark, and short circuit. We thought what better way to show off how flipping cool it is than to wrap my entire car in glow. Feel cool yet? I'm in a Porsche. We're going to show you guys how

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Hz display. We're going to have that and more deals linked in the video description. That was freaking sick. I hope, I mean, I'm past Linus and we still have to wrap the car and we still have to make it glow. Fortunately, we have pros to wrap the car at least, leaving us with

the glow now. As you might have already guessed, the new Glow Circuit skin and soon to be my car are glow-in-the-dark, or as the fancy boys would call it, phosphorescent, a type of photoluminescence. Say, when these kinds of materials are lit up, they can become

photo-excited, a process in which photons from the light excite electrons in the material to a higher energy state, storing the light's energy. It's mine. The excited electrons can then either fluoresce or drop to a lower but still excited intermediate level and stay there for

some period of time, then with the help of a bit of thermal energy, or heat, a relaxation can occur allowing the electrons to chill out and release their extra excitement, or energy, as photons, otherwise known as light, or in this case glow. So TL;DR, you use light to charge

glow-in-the-dark stuff, except if you've ever been a child, you probably remember that when you play around with this stuff, the only time the effect really pops is when you supercharge it and then immediately go to pitch blackness. Something that, um, isn't very likely to

happen under normal driving conditions. So what can we do? The most obvious option would be to just leave my garage lights on all the time, that way anytime I wanted to go out for a night drive my car would be fully charged and ready to go. Here's the thing that Professor Riley

left out: phosphorescent materials don't react to all parts of the light spectrum equally. So if you look at these two flashlights, one of them is going to appear brighter when I point both of them at my glow material. You can see that one is obviously more effective.

Replace my garage light fixtures with black lights. I'm kidding, honey, don't kill me. My wife lets me get away with a lot, but that isn't going to be it. So there's a few examples of Yvonne putting up with a lot. So our goal then

is to get as much of the right wavelength light as close to the car as possible, ideally without spending a fortune. So I did what any sane YouTuber would do and bought a whole bunch of different black lights for science. Tell me about these agricultural lights, you

mean grow lights well yeah they daisy chain together they're cheap and they cover a lot of area wow that definitely pops the light color is actually not the same as my other black light the color doesn't tell the full story though well here's the thing traditionally

commercial black lights average in the 365 nanometer range which apparently is the best for glow-in-the-dark material charging but that assumes the quality control is up to snuff which one do you want next do you want the fire hazard sure is this the fire hazard it looks

like a fire hazard it kind of feels like a fire hazard well they're individual they don't daisy chain I already found that drawback these are Amazon special I mean ooh they're bright they charge well they definitely charge it well the fun thing with this

one is leave it going for about 5 minutes and then touch the back I'll plug it in over here and we'll let it sit and do its thing while we talk about our last lights these look like the point where we finally went let's just

buy the brand name ones they've got what looks like adequate cooling the build quality is reassuringly premium including glass fronts instead of just plastic and after that story I read about that event where they lit it up with black lights and they were the wrong wavelength and people had a bunch

of eye problems these seem like the kind of thing I would trust more but I couldn't help noticing that these are at two different wavelengths so why don't we start with 395 sure either of these are safe though right yep now this is way more like what I would expect a black

light to look like it's got sort of that blue-ish purple hue, but this is supposedly not the ideal, no. And this, the blue comes from being at the bottom of our visible range. Okay, so the next light actually shows up a lot more white because we're

not seeing most of it. I mean, this one still pops, okay, but definitely not as well as our other stuff. What's the 365 look like? So, it shows up very white. Interesting, buddy. And this one is, is 100 watt versus 50 watt, right? Okay, so what this tells us

is that either our other lights are not actually outputting the power that they say they are, or they're not outputting at the wavelength that they say they are because that is what it is supposed to look like. And with the power, they're definitely not. Do you want to check on the

cheap one? Sure. Oh, wow. Okay, it's definitely hot, but this thing claims 150 watts. Cheap 150 watt, better 100 watt. I think part of the problem in this demo might be that it's casting more visible light on the vinyl which hides the glow from us. The good

one is definitely still better. Let's find out. Jake, kill the lights. The answer is yes. So, we've got our nailed down, but a pre-flight manual charge-up process with the car, it's a little bit ridiculous. So, my initial plan for getting the lights pointed at the

car was to build a paint inspection booth style light array. After seeing how fast this charges the skins, it seemed kind of silly. So, the new plan then is to build a single archway out of extruded aluminum right at the exit of the garage.

that way when I pull out slowly it'll charge it up we'll do that in a sec first let's take a look at the delivery of the wrapped car dude it looks sick it either just looks like unnaturally white in the dark or it looks

green way beyond my expectations it's amazing how much it charges from a distance yeah I think we might have overdone it how many of these lights to be by 11 now I'm thinking you should just mount them on the walls in here yeah

where's the instructions this is Ikea right yeah it's in my head but it's very simple so we've got a bunch of brackets and we've got a bunch of t-nuts oh those look baller these brackets are going to be what hold the top to the sides MH and

then we've got a bunch of these small ones for things like this just going to pull a bit out of my sack pardon me 11 of these okay why don't I work on that so they're going to go like that this should in theory just all bolt together

and be happy now we did run into one issue the bolts that we were intending to use to mount the lights are too long or rather this material's not thick enough so that when you screw them down they actually bottom out on the aluminum extrusion and then the light is all

floppy so we had to 3D print some little washers to fill the gap and now it's mint I hate non-ferrous screws technically they are the higher quality ones I know did you have a plan for how to actually

like oh wait I know I know LTT store.com we pretty much got the entire frame put together and now we just have to see is it sturdy oh that's not bad at all it's not amazing but it's pretty rigid I mean even if you like bumped

into it like it's not going anywhere I'm going to start cable managing and what better way to do that than the LTT store Cable Management stuff which I don't have in my hand although it occurs to me that this is aluminum which means we're going to have

to mount some of our fancy metal plates to make them stick we're so close while cable managing our power bars which are using the little uh Keyhole mounts here we've run into another issue the bottom light is too short to reach the power bar if it's on the top it fits if it's

here yeah but we want to pop I wonder if I could just open that switch ow yeah I don't know about this Chief the last piece of this puzzle is automating the lights we don't want them to have to like turn it on before he leaves cuz

ADHD he won't remember we have two pieces to accomplish this it looks pretty simple it should be pretty simple but I promise you it's very over engineered this Philips Hue Smart plug it's a Zigbee smart plug we can control it remotely and this is the everything

presents one uh kind of like DIY I think he's a YouTuber that designed this thing it has a passive infrared sensor similar to security systems in your house along with a millimeter wave sensor which is what we're going to be using today this

in theory, I can just sit like right here and as soon as the car crosses this line boom, we don't want like anyone walking through the garage to trigger this thing. So I went ahead and set it to 90 CM which is roughly 3 ft. Oh it's you, you know, you are hello you

are insufferable. Watch this and then I'll walk away. Give me a sec. I set the timeouts to zero so it should be pretty quick. Boom, off. And if I go over here, isn't that crazy? So cool. All right, you can drive the bloody

car in now. Wow, this looks incredible. You guys cable managed IT and everything. Well you were listening, so you know the secret. Well, no, I walked in earlier and I triggered it, so I know the secret. That is freaking awesome, cuz I was thinking about it. I was like, how are

we going to make sure that it's not just on all the time and I don't have to manually press a stupid thing? That is freaking awesome. Bruh, bruh. Okay, did the theory work? Does it charge the whole car as you go through?

Holy crap, it totally works! It totally freaking works! That is awesome. No way, man. Sometimes you have good ideas. All right, I know right? It was bound to happen eventually. Like I have seen the car charged. This is better. Oh, you could do shadow paintings

on this too. Do it again, do it again, do it again, dude. Except under direct street lamp lighting, it flipping glows like crazy. I needed to trigger like a touch earlier cuz it kind of misses the front end, but just do that. Oh yeah, no way.

there we go well actually maybe we should have hold on wait do we have any other the phones are you freaking kidding me right now look at this Steam Deck it looks like it is from a video game look at me casually gaming with my glowing flipping Steam Deck there's a

few different versions there's Glow Circuit which is the black and glow and then there's Short Circuit and Dark Circuit which is the black on black I know which one I like you might think it's a little bit silly but imagine if you just had like a UV light in your

room you're like you're in the gaming zone you flip on your UV light and now your Xbox looks sick oh man I can't get over the Steam Deck dude it looks insane let's talk a little bit about the new circuit board drop this is no normie

inkjet printed vinyl dbrand had to develop a custom process just for this drop using special 3D printed UV gel ink to give it a texture you can really feel not just that but that actually in my subjective opinion improves the grip of the device as well while supplies last

all orders will include this 365 nanometer UV light so you can charge up your phone whenever you want all you got to do to get it for yourself is head to dbrand.com 49 really is there another vanity URL ground news does it ever feel like

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out the one where we wrapped my car in the first place with that purple holographic skin that was super cool too the most glow for the least dough

I really hope this is legal.

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