Reread your sentence and try again. It is erosive, not corrosive or abrasive. OPs comment was that this coating could be expected to “only last a few hours”. Unless I missed something in the video, it’s just plain tap water. It would take a really long time for water like this to eat through a hydrophobic coating. In…

Good thing the canyon was coated in this material, otherwise it may never have happened.

so long as it’s just water, the coating should last indefinitely. The issue they tend to have is with abrasive interactions. Makes it hard to find a useful place to apply the stuff.

Check out Sharkbite connectors if you want to work with copper without the hassle of learning to do technical things like work with solder.

If they really can manufacture meta materials with the consistency and quality they’re claiming, I see no reason this couldn’t at least beat out my E-PL5 (when paired with a kit level lens at least).

Never heard “make the common case fast” have you? For 99% of the population, the fact that a smartphone camera will never be as good as a full frame sensor, dedicated professional camera is unimportant. Improving the 99% case is what they’re going for here.

Is there a demo shot?

Add the badges, paint with really low quality paint, let it bake in the sun ‘till things start cracking, then remove the badges so they look like old sunburns...

Freeze thaw cycles aren’t terribly quick. Perhaps a thin layer (couple inches?) of pervious concrete can be applied above draining channels. Combine this with self heating concrete and you can probably get most of the water out of the system before it refreezes...or not. I dunno, not a concrete expert.

That’s just because you haven’t woken up yet...sheeple!

Been much the same for 10 years. Good to see we’re not the only ones!

Hopefully it’s at least half as good as my posts are making it out to be. Honestly, there’s massive potential in both directions (success and failure) for a product like this. I’m just hoping it turns out to be more functional than other things I really liked (Lytro), but ultimately failed. If they do it right, I…

You’re right, I’ll likely lament the ability to swap out my camera for an infrared one without having to plug in some crazy dongle into a fragile usb port that I rely on for charging. Or the spare couple batteries I’ll be able to swap out without turning off the phone or plugging in some gangly cord while I’m on an…

Agreed, but to poo-poo the idea without any counterargument is not very convincing.

I like your idea of niche and would very much appreciate if you could throw a pittance of cash (you wouldn’t even have to pluralize the million) my way to study the phenomena more closely.

yeah, it’s clearly niche when PCPartPicker.com is making millions.

Just like the home PC was such a failure since people could upgrade their setups outside the band of buying a whole new system.

This comment makes me want to be a more modular person...

It sounds totally way more practical to dig out a fire pit instead of tossing a burrito into a small canister for a minute. Bonus: when your single matchstick is used you can reuse it indefinitely...or buy a damn fire striker. Think smarter, not harder.

I don’t think that would have helped. This looked like more than 1.5psi off stock. Perhaps if they were installed at all 4 wheels?