Is It Possible To Make a Black Mirror? 

Netflix lawyers: "Interesting."

Some day he’ll be about 96 years old, and we’ll think it’s his goodbye video- but then he’ll teach us how to become immortal.

Polished black shoes be like: Allow me to introduce myself

"Is it possible to make a black mirror? " Uhh yeah dude there have been 5 seasons of it

I think Stuart Semples paints need multiple coats and to dry overnight, so the glossiness may not be immediately apparent. At least Black 3.0 needed multiple coats and to dry over an extended period

Your whole channel is you being the best teacher on bd. ❤️💯

This should also be an episode of black mirror series on netflix

Now I can Sleep peacefully...I got the answer to my late-night thoughts.. Thanks @ActionLab

You have the best science channel on RU-vid! Seriously, I watch them all. You come up with creative and original topics. Thank you for doing these, it's a pleasure to watch

You can also make black mirrors which absorb visible light but are reflective in other wavelengths.

I never heard of that, it’s amazing. With the right geometry you could make an object almost invisible from a specific angle. Thank you!

I have been studying ray optics in my classes recently and this guy makes that more interesting

I feel that plastic box he uses deserves a name. He uses it for everything.

What a coincidence! This is a part of my Ph.D. thesis which I am working on right now.

Is Black Mirror possible? Charlie Brooker: I already made it.

This guy be like: Alright today i gona show u how to make a lightsaber

This is arguably the best educational channel :)

I love this channel. I swear, I’d take these videos from this awesome guy, over anything else on RU-vid

Your experiments are beyond my thinking

This has gotta be the coolest use of how your eyes perceive color.

When I was younger, I did a lot of reading on Divination, and Scrying. A black mirror, is popular for Scrying. Scrying is a term used to describe looking into a crystal ball, or similar objects. Really cool stuff...

He gives me more education than my whole school lessons

You are a true definition of what scientist is.

This is an example of Total internal reflection, It is the same phenomenon that makes fiber optic work. Nice :D! I have seen in below water on pools and it is amazing !

This video got me wondering what color regular mirrors are

I feel like one of these days he's gonna show us how to shoot fireballs

Thank you very informative and very fun to watch

I think Netflix beat you in this one, they've been doing this for several years now.

People actually used to use polished obsidian black mirrors before aluminized glass mirrors became popular. They obviously don't have the same color fidelity as modern mirrors, but they were enough to see a decent reelection of one's facial features and that was often enough.

Got an idea, you make a mirror you turn on and off, if you made a bunch of strips like this, submerged them, and could get solenoids to flatten and then put them all at angles

As a follow-up, you might consider covering black chrome and similar finishes.

If someone takes these properties into account and develop a car paint with them, it would look insane.

if it's 100% reflective, is it still black?

a option id like to see, its called the straw theory. when you take a regular straw in a cup of water and cover it with your finger and pull it out, the water comes with it. scale that up, and have a larger straw in a pool, can you still pull it out of the water and have the water come with it? and how large can you go before it stops working ?

I loved the “Salesforce” didn’t pay the full sponsorship, just a bit of it. Expose them 😂

3:49 The spherical one is really cool.

Great video! You make the best experiments ever!

Wow! The stars must have aligned! Just last night I randomly salvaged an old LCD TV screen and was very impressed with it's reflectivity. I decided to turn the plastic sheet into a black mirror and I stumble across this! 😂 It'd be neat to see the technique you've used here to turn a full sized mirror into a black mirror that sits behind a thin reservoir of water. I'm also curious to know how other, more viscus liquids would perform in place of the water and what your thoughts were of the black mirror paint??

Black mirror has already been made..on Netflix! 😀

i have one from apple that does lots of thingsz besdies being a black mirror, but i enjoy your videosz plz dont quit

Very Nice Small Experiment Sir..... @The Action Lab 😉 😊

For anyone wondering, this is due to reflectivity being focused at the 0° center of an object and the 90° edges of an object. So, the 0° doesnt reflect, but the 90° does.

This is the reason why aquarium backgrounds are painted black to look cool and reflective...

You should do a video on how you come up with the ideas for these cool videos.

I was studying and i saw the notification and rushed to watch this

This video is just as interesting as the rock mica, stacked, they look black, and reflective, but flaked, they look translucent and I’m sure there’s also a slight reflection

Super interesting soot/water/air interaction! I think scientists believe some of the earliest looking glasses were pieces of obsidian glass. Black mirrors. Very monochrome and maybe similar reflectivity to the high-gloss object you showed.

more thought-provoking than any actual episode of black mirror

Wow. Just mind blown. Cool as!

Painter artists (and me) use back mirrors outdoors all the time. They look at their subject reflected on the mirror.

wow the sphere was so cool!

Black Mirror? I love that show!

This is genius. This man is amazing!

So the dependence upon a layer of air means that if you submerge the black mirror to enough depth that the pressure causes all of the air in the layer to dissolve, then it will quit working. But you could get one of these to work at depth by having an overcoat of gloss (the black paint shown at the start might even do the job by itself).

Omg I have never seen an ad of Salesforce, i used that in my formerjob

4:38 Hears she's a swimmer. Sees her dress. "Nah she ain't no swimmer, she's drowning".

Wittgenstein writes that one can imagine a mirror in any color except white. Try that.

5:11 If it's the reflection of the air-bubble interface, how do we see the coin?

Heyy!! I am very curious to know how a party popper works!! How it develops that pressure inside it...

i dont understand shit but this really sick

I had a job who forced me to use Salesforce. It was absolutely terrible: not doing what it said and requiring user or support intervention, site layout was cumbersome, and nobody would have used it without Management saying to use it or not get paid. Did they fix it?

Thanks for the video.

Would you be able to use this against enemies so that there'd be no glare?

This guy is the person i would accept as a science teacher

Next up: Is it possible to create a White Hole in my garage?

This one is gonna be fun

oh also you should be able to internally light glossy then so it glows, hence fluorescent but you can neon charge glossy paint also i am sure of it, its yours cant wait to see what you do with it

It would be cool if everyone had this material.

Hey, that's very interesting, it also re-explained to me why a trapped air-bubble acts like a mirror underwater. But, is it possible to create something that neither reflects nor absorbs anything? Or is it really just between those two metrics (reflective/doesn't absorb - unreflective/absorbs)

What would happen if you did this experiment with a convex mirror? How about a concave mirror? What patterns would we see?

Cool video! I'm always interested in this kind of thing because I work for the largest mirror manufacturer in North America, Contractors Wardrobe. We also make Black Mirror, but definitely not the same process! All of our mirrors are also 100% copper-free, which is really advantageous.

Time to summon demons through my black mirror.

Great video very interesting!

Can you make an entire room with black mirrors? Like the room of mirrors or the room of black 3.0 paint

@The Action Lab I've come up with a negative power circuit that uses only one lead

4:08 How many people said out-loud, "Indices!" lol Given today's audience, I'd go with "indexes" too. Love the channel, and this video is an excellent example why.

The ads in the middle of the video are really obnoxious. Is there a patron or something else to avoid it?

Oh damn that swimmer swimming below the water was swimming really good!!!!

Black Chrome on wheels: 1) get chrome wheels 2) rub graphite on it 3) drive in a river

When our phone screen turns off , we can still see our reflection . BLACK MIRROR.........

Nice! Makes sense

WOW A NEW BLACK MIRROR EPISODE

2:15 - You coated the mirror with soot. The arrangement of soot on the mirror is hydrophobic. The reflection is really coming from the surface of water against the soot.

isn't the soot hydrophobic?.i guess it's reflected by the total internal reflection in water as there is a thin layer of air in between soot and water and no relation with what color behind it.

Wow, that is very intresting..!

Fun fact, the “black mirror” the Netflix show is referring to is a screen that’s turned off. Phone screen, laptop screen, tv screen.

0:18 "I show you how you can make something that absorbs and reflects ..." Like almost every material 😉

I was expecting with absolutely 100% certainity, that somewhere silly comments must appear about THAT sci-fi series... aaand I wan't disappointed.

I got a question let’s say you was in a empty bus with no seats as the bus what going 60mph and you was at the back of the bus and ran up to the front how much greater would your speed be?

Culture Hustle paints(Black Mirror) are awesome

Do a "true-mirror" black (soot) mirror!!! If that soot-black mirror is a mirror you can't ever see yourself in, would you see your reflection if you also made it a "true mirror" underwater?

Cool video thank you so much for making such a wonderful videos. An unrelated question... Does permanent magnets are forever megnatized or they lose their magnetic ability after some time

*purposefully asks a doubt to the science teacher about this concept to test their knowledge*

So maybe you can improve this experiment by using the blackest paint available and spray Neverwet on it and then put it in water? Do we get better results?

Love the experiments

As soon as i saw you cover it in soot i knew it was the surface of the water that was reflecting not the black itself

The Action lab: making a black mirror using candle and water My microwave: Hold my beer.

Since the reflection is occurring at the hydrophobic level and not that of the object (e.g. coin), am I seeing the image of of the President because of the topographic changes altering the angle of reflection? Or, does soot have a structure that, at the right angle, allows light to pass or bounce through it?

Does this actually count tho? Technically it's 2 different things reflecting/absorbing light. The Soot absorbs it while the air reflects it independently..

I wonder if there is some sort of varnish that would produce the same effect in the dry