Scotch Tape: X-rays of the future

Two weeks off a nobel prize win for work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much more familiar form of matter: Scotch Tape. It actually turns out that if you peel the popular adhesive tape off it's rolls in a vacuum chamber, it emits X-rays!! The researchers even made an x-ray image of one of their fingers. Juan Escobar, a graduate of the University of Los Angeles, California or UCLA suggests that with some refinements, the process might be harnessed for making inexpensive X-ray machines for paramedics or for places where electricity is expensive or hard to get. After all, you could peel tape or do something similar in such machines with just human power, like crankig. All in all, it's pretty cool to think that something used lets say in a school building everyday can be used to help the world in a big way.