I understand that Diet Coke is nothing more than a carefully engineered cocktail of chemicals, but it would be harder to pretend it wasn’t that way if it glowed. This chemistry tea set from Wonsik Chae works like a glowstick when you drop it into water, and it might be a nice addition to your backcountry drink kit. I’m not sure you could bury the tea or burn it in a fire after you finished using it since the glow comes from a ‘chemical intermediate’ and might turn the forest into a Chernobyl-like national park. What would be really interesting is if you drank an enormous amount of the stuff and your urine glowed—you wouldn’t need to bring a headlamp when you got up to go to the bathroom.

via Backpacker

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