Open your drawer. Take out the Scotch Tape. Pull out a slice and make sure that you handle every inch of the tape with your unprotected digits.

Scientists have recently proven that something as innocent as adhesive tape holds some pretty freaky properties. I mean to say that harmful, horrible, brain-erroding x-rays are making their way into your eyes as you read. Scarier yet is that nobody has an idea why. To be fair though, I may have exaggerated the brain-destroying aspect of tape radiation but the scientists being clueless is nothing short of being true in every context, and I mean every context of them.  Continuing on...

Back in the 1930s, children demonstrated a scientific phenomenon referred to as triboluminescence. They did it whilst hiding in closets. Why it was discovered by children 70-plus year ago remains a mystery. Also, the amount of time that children in the 1930s spent in their closests remains a mystery --consider the fact that they did make a scientific discovery. But to elaborate, rhythmic yanks of tape, at a very precise speed supposedly produced a series of sparks. If you look at some academic reports from the University Of California, you'll uncover a study that involves a motorized peeling machine, a large roll of tape and an artificial vacuum. Essentially, letting the peeling machine do its thing on the tape roll can transfer enough energy for an effective x-ray. Of course, the entire system needs to take place in a vacuum though. If you perform the experiment in well lit/ambient conditions, the gases in the environment decelerate the electrons necessary for an x-ray.

Therefore, producing x-rays using your tape slices works a little like this:

Electrons run from one side of the tape to another side as it is pulled

The immediate stop of electrons as produced by a yank or similar action produces an x-ray.

The more practical application for tape x-rays are cheaper, safer, more portable machines in the future. However, Camara, the author of the report says that it's possible to achieve table-top nuclear fusion if you get the right speed as well as an appropriate length of tape. But imagine a future where the solution to our energy-crisis is a community of do-gooders who spend day and night performing the same menial task -- all to satisfy Big Brother. I hope you read the George Orwell novel.