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Invisible Post-it notes.

No more little yellow notes...
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Ok. They're basically invisible Post-it notes. They have a sensor so that ink turns them invisible, but the writing stays. This way you won't have any ugly yellow notes posted all over, and you can make the notes overlap...
Hankosha, May 06 2003

Widely Baked electronically http://www.stanford...storm/postboard.txt
One of many implementations. (It's somewhere on the page - keep looking.) [DrCurry, Oct 17 2004]

Sheer Post-it Notes http://products3.3m...Handler/output_html
3/4 baked by 3M... [dbsousa, Oct 17 2004]

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       Magic post-its, eh? [Marked For Invisibility]
pluterday, May 06 2003
  

       Not inherently impossible if we substitute "transparent" for "invisible" - 3M makes both Scotch Magic tape and Post-It notes, so they might well listen to you.   

       Trying to figure out why you want invisible ink too.
DrCurry, May 06 2003
  

       The ink doesn't turn invisble, the ink being put onto the note makes the note invisible.
Hankosha, May 06 2003
  

       will one little dot of ink do it?
po, May 06 2003
  

       Why not start with it clear? (Like Scotch/Sellotape.) A whole lot easier to manufacture.
DrCurry, May 06 2003
  

       But it wouldn't be nearly as cool.
-alx, May 06 2003
  

       Ink that turns paper invisible? Uh uh, no way. I call "bullshit."
snarfyguy, May 06 2003
  

       If invisibility were a possibility, I think Post-it notes would be low on the list of priorities...
mahatma, May 06 2003
  

       [mahatma] has hit the nail on the head. the point of notes is to see them. the reason they are bright colors is to *improve* visibility. with no background, the black or blue ink on your note would blend in to the clutter on your desk and you'd never see what you wrote.
urbanmatador, May 06 2003
  
      
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