Every X-WOW invention, and how far it has really gotX-WOW 的每一项发明，以及它真正走到了哪一步
Each card says what the invention does, what it would cost and where it stands. A bar moves only when the proof file for that stage exists (a theory note with its numbers, a priced parts list, a build guide), and its date is the day that file first existed in X-WOW's own records, not the day it went online. The board grows when an idea passes X-WOW's gate: cheap, wow, unique, a seeing core. It is never padded. SWELL, the first invention, predates the gate and has not passed it; its card says why. Every card is free to build, change and claim. We claim nothing on any of them, but we can't promise that nobody else holds a patent: each invention's page says what we found. Just above the cards are the Sparks: new ideas shown the day they pass the first test, before the deeper checks, and the ideas we killed, with the reason.
Ideas that passed the first test: each would make something hidden, too small, too fast or too faint visible. They are untested ideas, not claims: none is said to be new until its search for earlier work is done, and none has a bar until it becomes a card.通过了第一关的点子：每一个都可能让藏着的、太小的、太快的或太暗的东西被看见。它们是还没检验的点子，不是结论：在查完前人的工作之前，不说任何一个是新的；变成卡片之前，也没有进度条。
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Heat-map paper热成像纸
A liquid-crystal sheet changes colour with temperature, so it paints heat as a picture: a fading handprint, or a leaf kept cool by its own evaporation.液晶片会随温度变色，把热量画成一幅图：慢慢消失的手印，或者靠自己蒸发水分保持凉爽的叶子。
Why it might matter: A thirsty plant may show up warmer before it droops, so a cheap sheet could let anyone see a plant's thirst early.可能的意义：缺水的植物在耷拉下来之前可能就会变暖，所以一张便宜的片子也许能让任何人提早看出植物渴了。
From: the owner's idea. Earlier work: not yet searched.来源：网站主人的点子。前人的工作：还没检索。
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Leaf-glow clock叶片荧光钟
A leaf kept in the dark and then lit gives off a faint red glow that rises and falls over seconds to minutes as photosynthesis starts up (the Kautsky effect).叶子先在黑暗里放一阵再照亮，会发出微弱的红光，几秒到几分钟里先变亮再变暗，那是光合作用在启动（卡乌茨基效应）。
Why it might matter: A filtered phone camera might watch that curve, a clock of the leaf's own machinery, with ordinary visible light only.可能的意义：加了滤光片的手机相机也许能拍下这条曲线，像一只记录叶子内部机器的钟；只用普通可见光。
From: the owner's idea. Earlier work: not yet searched (the Kautsky effect is classic plant science; we will credit it).来源：网站主人的点子。前人的工作：还没检索（卡乌茨基效应是经典的植物学现象，我们会注明出处）。
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Moiré magnifier莫尔纹放大镜
Lay one printed line pattern over another and a movement too small to see becomes broad bands sweeping across the sheet.把两张印着细线的透明片叠在一起，小到看不见的移动就会变成在纸上扫过的宽条纹。
Why it might matter: Two printed sheets might measure tiny bending or swelling, with the bands doing the magnifying.可能的意义：两张印出来的片子，也许就能量出极小的弯曲或膨胀，放大的工作交给条纹来做。
From: the owner's idea. Earlier work: not yet searched (moiré methods are long established; we will credit them).来源：网站主人的点子。前人的工作：还没检索（莫尔纹测量方法早已有之，我们会注明出处）。
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Rolling-shutter time microscope卷帘快门时间显微镜
A phone camera reads its picture one row at a time, so a single photo of something fast (a plucked string, a spinning fan) holds a time-line in its stripes.手机相机是一行一行读出画面的，所以给快速运动的东西（拨动的琴弦、转动的风扇）拍一张照片，条纹里就藏着一条时间线。
Why it might matter: It could measure speeds and frequencies far too fast for the eye with nothing but the phone in your pocket.可能的意义：也许只用口袋里的手机，就能测出眼睛根本跟不上的速度和频率。
From: the owner's idea. Earlier work: not yet searched (rolling-shutter measurement is studied in research; we will credit what we find).来源：网站主人的点子。前人的工作：还没检索（研究界已有利用卷帘快门做测量的工作，找到后会注明出处）。
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Screen-polariser microscope屏幕偏振显微镜
Many phone and laptop screens give out polarised light; with a second polarising film, raw starch grains glow with dark crosses that fade once the starch is cooked.很多手机和电脑屏幕发出的是偏振光；再加一张偏振片，生淀粉颗粒会亮起带黑十字的光，淀粉煮熟后十字就消失了。
Why it might matter: It would show cooking happen at the level of how molecules are packed, using a screen you already own. Raw and already-cooked food side by side; any heating is an adult's job.可能的意义：用你已经有的屏幕，就能看见烹饪在分子排列层面发生的变化。生的和已经煮好的食物并排比较；任何加热都由大人来做。
From: the owner's idea. Earlier work: not yet searched.来源：网站主人的点子。前人的工作：还没检索。
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Seedling speckle growth幼苗散斑生长
Laser light scattered off a living seedling makes a grainy speckle that shimmers as cells move and grow. This is biospeckle, an established research method; the spark is only about making it cheap and safe.激光照在活的幼苗上会散射出颗粒状的散斑，细胞一动、一长，散斑就闪动。这叫生物散斑，是已有的研究方法；这个点子只是想让它变得便宜又安全。
Why it might matter: How fast the speckle changes could show growth a camera can't see directly. Only a sealed Class 1 or 2 laser product, handled by an adult and never pointed at anyone's eyes.可能的意义：散斑变化的快慢，也许能显示相机直接看不到的生长。只用密封的 1 类或 2 类激光产品，由大人操作，绝不对着任何人的眼睛。
From: the owner's idea. Earlier work: biospeckle research comes first; the search for cheap versions is not yet done.来源：网站主人的点子。前人的工作：生物散斑研究在先；便宜做法的检索还没做。
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Shadow gate影子门
Anything small that crosses a thin beam of light dims it for a moment; timing those dips tells how big and how fast it was.任何小东西穿过一束细光时，都会让光暗一下；记下这些变暗的时刻，就能知道它有多大、有多快。
Why it might matter: Falling drops, seeds or grains could be sized and timed with a cheap light sensor or a phone's slow-motion video.可能的意义：落下的水滴、种子或颗粒，也许用便宜的光传感器或手机慢动作视频就能量出大小和速度。
From: a principle drawn from a news-feed headline about an open-hardware paper on droplet sensing (the paper itself not yet opened). Earlier work: not yet searched (light gates are common in schools).来源：从新闻源里一篇关于液滴检测的开源硬件论文的标题中提炼的原理（论文本身还没打开读过）。前人的工作：还没检索（光电门在学校里很常见）。
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Swing scale for hidden mass看见隐藏质量的秋千秤
Hang an object on three strings and time how it twists: the timing tells how its mass is spread around its middle.用三根线把东西吊起来，记下它来回扭转的时间：这个时间能告诉你它的质量是怎样围绕中心分布的。
Why it might matter: A phone timer could show whether the mass of something sealed sits near its middle or out at its edges, without opening it.可能的意义：用手机计时，也许不用打开就能看出密封物体的质量是集中在中间，还是分布在边上。
From: a principle drawn from a news-feed headline about an open-hardware paper on a three-string pendulum (the paper itself not yet opened). Earlier work: not yet searched (the three-string pendulum is a textbook method; we will credit it).来源：从新闻源里一篇关于三线摆的开源硬件论文的标题中提炼的原理（论文本身还没打开读过）。前人的工作：还没检索（三线摆是教科书里的方法，我们会注明出处）。
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ReLens再用镜头
A printed adapter and a phone app could turn one retired microscope objective into a measuring microscope that checks itself against a ruler on the slide.一个打印的转接件加一个手机应用，也许能把一只退役的显微镜物镜变成会用玻片上的标尺自我校准的测量显微镜。
Why it might matter: Retired lab optics are often thrown away; one good lens could be a school's first calibrated microscope.可能的意义：实验室退役的光学件常常被扔掉；一只好镜头，可能成为一所学校第一台校准过的显微镜。
From: Back to Shine. Earlier work: not yet searched (phone microscope adapters are common; anything new would have to be the self-check).来源：旧仪器再发光。前人的工作：还没检索（手机显微镜转接件很常见；如果有新意，只能在自我校准上）。
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SlideBox玻片盒
A phone, a printed stage and free hosting might turn any school's box of slides into an explorable SHRINK world.一部手机、一个 3D 打印的载物台和免费托管，也许能把任何学校的一盒玻片变成可以探索的“变小探险”世界。
Why it might matter: Whole-slide scanners are out of reach for most schools; their slide boxes sit in cupboards.可能的意义：大多数学校买不起全玻片扫描仪，它们的玻片盒只能躺在柜子里。
From: X-WOW's slide-scanner archive and SHRINK. Earlier work: not yet searched (phone slide-scanning and open microscopes exist; we will credit them).来源：X-WOW 的切片扫描仪档案和变小探险。前人的工作：还没检索（已有手机扫玻片和开源显微镜的做法，我们会注明出处）。
Microscopy显微moved前进
SWELLSWELL
An expansion microscope designed to check every gel against chicken muscle.设计上用鸡肉肌纤维来检验每块凝胶的膨胀显微镜。
A hydrogel swells the specimen 4 to 10 times so a microscope with a 3D-printed stage, designed to be cheap, could resolve detail below the light's limit, in the specimen's own units. Chicken myofibrils expanded alongside carry sarcomeres, built-in rulers that would report how much each fibril grew; whether that matches the gel around them is untested. It is a partial desk design (5 of its 9 design documents are written; the wet-lab protocol, the safety pack, the mechanical CAD and the instrument software are not), with simulations and a red-team test, given away free; it has never been built.水凝胶把样品胀大 4 到 10 倍，这样一台载物台用 3D 打印、以低成本为目标的显微镜就有可能按样品原本的尺度分辨出小于光的极限的细节。鸡肉肌原纤维和样品一起膨胀，它们的肌节是内置的尺子，有望报告每根纤维胀了多少；这是否和周围凝胶的膨胀一致，还没有测试过。这是一份尚未完成的纸面设计（9 份设计文件写好了 5 份；湿实验流程、安全资料包、机械 CAD 和仪器软件都还没有），附模拟和红队检验，免费送出；从来没有造过。
≥ £214 for the parts priced so far; most aren't priced yet, so there is no full cost已查到价格的零件合计 ≥ £214；大多数零件还没查价，所以还没有完整造价
Theory checked by: AI checks only (fresh Claude sessions that didn't write it); no person has checked it理论由谁核对：只有 AI 检查过（没参与编写的全新 Claude 会话）；没有人核对过
Has not passed X-WOW's gate: it predates it; an AI review (10 October 2026; an AI told to read as a sceptical specialist) scored principle 12, "feels like 2030", a fail, and principles 2 (scientifically wow) and 4 (it checks itself) are untested or weak. Shown as the first invention, with its card.没有通过 X-WOW 的关卡：它比关卡早；一次 AI 审查（2026 年 10 月 10 日，让 AI 扮演挑剔的专业读者）判定第 12 条原则“像 2030 年的东西”不合格，第 2 条（科学上惊艳）和第 4 条（能自我检验）也还未测试或偏弱。作为第一项发明连同它的卡片一起展示。
Clock tile for slow scans慢速扫描的时钟格: Not an invention of its own: it is a step inside SWELL's method, and stays there.它不是一项独立的发明，而是 SWELL 方法里的一步，就留在那里。
Salad-spinner cell sorter沙拉甩干器细胞分选机: It separates things but shows nothing: no seeing core, so it fails X-WOW's first test.它能把东西分开，却什么也没让人看见：没有“看见”的核心，第一关就不通过。
Water-bead expansion lesson吸水珠膨胀课: Water beads are a known danger to young children: the US Consumer Product Safety Commission warns that swallowed beads can swell and block the intestines (as reported by NBC News, 20 March 2024). Not for a site children use, in any form.吸水珠对小孩子是公认的危险：美国消费品安全委员会警告，吞下的珠子会在体内胀大、堵住肠子（据 NBC 新闻 2024 年 3 月 20 日报道）。孩子会用的网站，不以任何形式采用。
How the bar is counted进度条怎么算
Concept (10): a card with the hook, three sentences, the twelve-principle triage, the prior-art search and the AI reviewer's verdict.
Theory checked (15): the science written out with at least three computed or cited numbers; the card names who checked it (so far, only AIs).
Design drafted (15): drawings, a schematic or CAD files (a text document, a plot or a render never counts).
Parts priced (10): at least five parts, each with a price, a link and the date checked.
Build guide (15): numbered steps, a safety section and the built-in check.
Prototype built (20): hardware, a build report from someone outside X-WOW, with who checked it (X-WOW itself stops at simulated prototypes); software, a public working version at its address.
Validated (15): measured results against the claims, with who checked them, checked independently.
The bar adds every stage whose proof exists. The stage named on a card is the furthest one with every stage before it done, so a card never claims a step it skipped.
