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somebody wrote:
> "Rune" <aut### [at] runevision com> wrote in message
> news:4710a2c6$1@news.povray.org...
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>> And then, some weeks ago, a company called Nanocover has been showing TV
>> commercials in national TV about their nanocover products, available right
>> here and right now, and looking almost unbelievable, just like you'd
>> imagine. Their commercial shows a white sofa lowered down in a red liquid
>> and then lifted up again, still completely white.
>
> Fabric protectors (like Scotchgard) and water repellants have been available
> for ages (that's why people wax their cars), nothing "nano", just regular
> technology marketed under a hype branding. Also, not all (red) liquids are
> adhesive - depends on surface tension and cohesivity (mercury won't "stick",
> for instance).
That doesn't mean that this particular company *isn't* using
nanotechnology. Actually this sort of application sounds a lot more
feasible than other SF nanotech tricks...Scotchgard and its ilk might
have been around a while, but that doesn't mean you can't do a lot
better by playing with how you apply it or what exactly you're applying.
--
Tim Cook
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-empyrean
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