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The company has created a slim bracelet, the UP band, that contains a wealth of sensors and a rechargeable battery all attached to a flexible steel frame enclosed in a special, rubber-like coating.
ECONOMIST: Technology will become even more personal
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He uses hundreds of pounds of pure melted beeswax much like plaster, smoothly coating walls and ceilings until they almost resemble yellow marble except with a warm glow.
WSJ: A Collaboration of Bees and Man: The Phillips Collection at the Laib Wax Room
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Easier to chug than hot coffee or tea, less likely to upset your stomach than fizzy energy drinks, doing it all without leaving a gritty coating in your mouth like a 5-Hour Energy Shot.
FORBES: The Product
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The White version of the device has an industry-first Teflon coating (right, just like your pans) to keep things clean and grime free.
ENGADGET: HTC Hero running Android and Sense UI leaks from HTC's own website (updated, official, video)
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If metals or non-metals are added to the plasma at this stage, the coating can be made to act like a metallic or non-metallic compound or anything in between.
ECONOMIST: MONITOR
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The magical properties of coffee stains have already spurred on some researchers to develop a better coating for TV screens, and it looks like they've now inspired a few folks to create a new type of touchscreen as well.
ENGADGET: Coffee-like stains inspire new type of touchscreen
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Despite sharing some aesthetic similarities with the former gadget -- like a dotted LED display, USB clasp and soft-touch rubber coating -- LG's model has a few more tricks up its sleeve.
ENGADGET: LG's Smart Activity Tracker wields a swipeable touchscreen and smart TV apps, we go hands-on (video)
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Brinker one-upped the bug by designing a coating for the Air Force so hydrophobic that water bounces off surfaces like a tennis ball.
FORBES: The Science of Small
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The first is that the asteroid is really a ball of ice, like the nucleus of a comet, and that the minerals which the spectroscope detected are only a coating.
ECONOMIST: Asteroids