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Australian Scientists Have Created A New Durable Superhydrophobic Material
Take a sheet of shrinkable plastic, like the stuff you find in Shrinky Dinks. Add a dash of of Teflon and — voila! — you have an incredibly simple new kind of superhyrdrophboc material.
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The World’s Cheapest Smartphone Costs $5
This is the Freedom 251. It gets the name from its rather modest 251-rupee price tag, which equates to about $5. And you know what? Its specs aren’t too bad, either.
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This Flexible Prototype Is A Glimpse At Your Future Phone
The sci-fi dream of flexible electronics is on its way — it’s just taking a while to arrive. But this new prototype flexible smartphone, that responds to the way it’s bent and twisted, at least hints at how your future phone may behave.
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Optical Data Storage Squeezes 360TB On To A Quartz Disc, Forever
Want to make sure you back something up indefinitely? Then you could do worse than a digital data storage technique that uses laser light to store 360 terabytes of information on nanostructured quartz for up to 14 billion years.