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Surrey NanoSystems introduces coating for automotive ADAS

Surrey NanoSystems introduces coating for automotive ADAS

Surrey NanoSystems has unveiled Vantablack Vision, its light-suppression coating designed for automotive ADAS and various industrial applications. The company said that this marks a significant step in advancing technologies that enhance road safety and system integrity.

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How Hollywood is embracing the world’s blackest black paint

How Hollywood is embracing the world’s blackest black paint

No color—or, more accurately, lack thereof—has caused more of a media frenzy in recent years than “Vantablack.” The blacker-than-black paint absorbs so much light (99.96%) that when it’s applied to something, that thing appears to not exist, giving off the effect of a black hole. 

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Vantablack to be Used in Colour Grading Facility

Vantablack to be Used in Colour Grading Facility

Surrey NanoSystems the inventors of Vantablack coating technology announce that they are partnering with Uhørt AS of Oslo to install the first Vantablack light absorbing ceiling in their digital colour grading facility. Uhørt are one of Scandinavia’s leading post production companies and have a reputation for delivering exceptional results through the use of innovative technologies.

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Swiss company mocks Apple with $30,800 Vantablack-coated watch – here's why

Swiss company mocks Apple with $30,800 Vantablack-coated watch – here's why

Luxury watchmaker H Moser – known for occasionally baiting Apple with its Swiss Alp analog watches – has released a new dig at the tech company with a timepiece that features an infinitely spinning loading wheel, and retails at $30,800 (about £23,000 / AU$40,000).

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Shades of Black

Shades of Black

Anish Kapoor, a British-Indian artist, uses the blackest black ever created to question notions of perception

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How one of the blackest substances on earth ended up in a luxury watch

How one of the blackest substances on earth ended up in a luxury watch

HMoser & Cie may well be the only watchmaker with a sense of humour. When it’s not busy producing elegant dress watches with beautiful fume dials and complications, it’s making a statement with bizarre one-offs made of Swiss cheese, plants or the hallmark features of other brands’ iconic models. For last year’s April Fool’s joke, the brand revealed a concept watch you couldn’t even read the time off because everything was supposedly coated in Vantablack, one of the world’s darkest materials.

As it turns out, interest and demand for such a ridiculous concept was so overwhelming that H Moser & Cie decided to follow through on the idea – with practical revisions, of course – and it resulted in the Venturer Concept Vantablack series last year. For 2020, the collection welcomes new Venturer Vantablack Black Hands models with an even stealthier look with barely-there hands.

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H. Moser & Cie. returns with three Vantablack novelties

H. Moser & Cie. returns with three Vantablack novelties

The watch with the darkest dial in watchmaking just got darker. Following last year’s Venturer Concept Vantablack, H. Moser & Cie. refines the watch by blackening the hands for this year’s collection. The result is just as austere and enigmatic, but perhaps even more so now. The Venturer Vantablack Black Hands is presented in two sizes – 39mm and 43mm. The smaller watch boasts a precious 18k white gold case, while the XL model is democratically encased in stainless steel. 

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Their Dark Materials

Their Dark Materials

Vantablack is a pigment that reaches a level of darkness that’s so intense, it’s kind of upsetting. It’s so black it’s like looking at a hole cut out of the universe. “Vantablack is striking when you look at it… because it [doesn’t look] like something is colored black.

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A Watch That Is Blacker Than Black

A Watch That Is Blacker Than Black

A new limited-edition watch has a tourbillon swirling in what appears to be a deep, infinite black hole. But, in fact, the mesmerizing dial is covered with what the National Physical Laboratory, Britain’s measurements standards institute, has verified as the darkest material on Earth.

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Tech teardown — how 2019 faded to black
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Tech teardown — how 2019 faded to black

The colour specialists Pantone like to try to sum up a year in a colour. For 2019, it was Living Coral. For 2020, it is Classic Blue, which it says is “suggestive of the sky at dusk”.

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