nanotechnology

New options to waterproof your smartphone?

Posted January 17, 2012 - 1:03 pm

There were two companies at the Consumer Electronics Show pitching carriers and phone makers on essentially the same product: a plastic-ish coating applied as a vapor to coat ever surface, inside and out. One, Liquipel, will do it for consumers who send in their phones.
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Researchers use mirage effect for invisibility cloak, prefer it as a noisemaker

Posted October 5, 2011 - 6:30 am

Using electricity to superheat carbon nanotubes makes the whole sheet shimmer like a heat mirage, concealing what's behind it. Its inventors are really more interested in mastering the nanotube wiggle to make sound waves, though, not hide tanks with bad visual F/X.
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Transparent battery may help make the phone you can't find now even less visible

Posted July 26, 2011 - 1:09 pm

Material scientists at Stanford made components of their battery so small they're almost impossible to see, clearing a major hurdle on the quest for totally transparent electronics.
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Invisibility cloak hides objects in a gap in time

Posted July 18, 2011 - 9:12 am

A new type of invisibility cloak hides things by bending light through time, not space, so your image doesn't have to be hidden; it never existed in the first place.
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Recharge a battery in two minutes, not six hours

Posted March 23, 2011 - 3:23 pm

Material-science researchers developed a way to combine the advantages of capacitors and batteries in one nanotech miracle that's not yet a product. Unfortunately.
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