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Re:OLO – the $99 box that transforms any smartphone into a 3... by nkurz on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @02:48PM (#11347151)
I'm not familiar with them, but one of the comments in the Kickstarter mentions this company as source of "daylight" (non-UV) resins: http://www.photocentric3d.com/#!daylight-resin/nen21

Perhaps not coincidentally, these resins seem to be sold in less photogenic opaque black bottles, but this does make it more likely that a resin actually exists.

The part of the article that bothered me more was the explanation of the principle of operation:

At the bottom of the reservoir, there’s a piece of polarized glass which you place your phone underneath, facing upward.

The polarized glass then takes all this light (which shines outwardly to give your phone a wider viewing angle) and redirects it so that all the photons are traveling straight upward.

I don't think that's how polarizing filters work. But perhaps this is just an issue with the 3rd party reporting rather than with the product itself.

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