UK Issues High-tech Stamps

bgood writes: "According to this story on Excite@Home, the UK's Royal Mail has released a series of "interactive" stamps. Included in the series: A scratch-and-sniff stamp, a stamp with a hologram, and another that shows an electrically-charged particle when warmed by finger heat. The stamps commemorate 100 years of the Nobel Prize and Britain's achievements. The Royal Mail describes the stamps here."

WooHoo!

[SomethingOrOther]

Scratch and sniff the queens head, whatever next!

Note for non-UK slashdoters. All stamps in the UK must have a pic/silouete of the queens head on to be legal!

Re:Scratch & Sniff = "Interactive"???

[Rogerborg]

• I do NOT want a scratch-and-sniff Queen Elizabeth II stamp.

<rant>That's Queen Elizabeth the First of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, aka Queen Elizabeth the Second of England and Wales. If you're going to crown James VI of Scotland as James I of the United Kingdom of England, Wales and Scotland, we'll damn well apply that to her Royal Highnessnessess as well.&lt/rant>