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Re:Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Y... by aaron695 on Saturday February 09, 2013 @02:22AM (#5192002)
This stuff seriously seems like a game changer. Could be all hype but if it's legit I think it'll be huge.

Never having to clean the toilet again in itself would be amazing. Cost reductions in business here alone is significant.

Anti graffiti capabilities would make it huge for government applications. On park benches etc keeping communal equipment from ageing. The whole cleaning industry could be changed.

Waterproofing electronics.

Hygiene in hospitals might save many, many lives.

I do like living in the future.

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Re:Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Y... by GuiA on Saturday February 09, 2013 @02:28AM (#5192006)
Anti-graffiti use is the first thing that sprung to my mind as well.

As you said, it may all be hype- but if it delivers, I suspect that the company making it (UltraTech?) is going to have a nice few years ahead of it :)

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Re:Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Y... by kaybe on Saturday February 09, 2013 @06:21AM (#5192325)
How about making graffity with it in a rainy place? It could look very cool and would be hidden most of the time.
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Re:Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Y... by ahelwer on Sunday February 10, 2013 @02:15PM (#5197433)
An art student I know did this at my school (U of Calgary) about three years ago. The design is invisible unless it rains or you splash a bucket of water on the wall. It's also in a low-traffic area, so I don't think very many people know about it.
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Re:Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Y... by kaybe on Sunday February 10, 2013 @02:23PM (#5197464)
Is it still there / how long did it last?
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Re:Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Y... by barbs on Saturday February 09, 2013 @03:32AM (#5192114)
I wonder how long it lasts, particularly when constantly exposed to the elements?
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Re:Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Y... by mixmastamyk on Saturday February 09, 2013 @05:59AM (#5192302)
Don't think it would work, because taggers use knives to carve into thing half the time.
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Re:Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Y... by steveklabnik on Saturday February 09, 2013 @01:40PM (#5193437)
Technically, 'taggers' refers to spray-paint only. You're referring to 'scratch.' This is because a 'tag' indicates a spot on the complexity level of the graffiti, and it's impossible to make a throwup or piece via scratch.

The More You Know!

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Re:Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Y... by deelowe on Saturday February 09, 2013 @02:25PM (#5193645)
Except it's easily removed with soap and water. I imagine that it's not intended to be a long lasting coating.
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Re:Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Y... by kingnothing on Sunday February 10, 2013 @02:15AM (#5195711)
Source?
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Re:Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Y... by gbaygon on Sunday February 10, 2013 @10:29AM (#5196616)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-WNb0NLSTI&t=146s
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Re:Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Y... by ajays on Saturday February 09, 2013 @01:43PM (#5193454)
I'd love to coat my toilet with this, so I never have to scrub it again. And also the insides of the plumbing pipes, so nothing gets stuck in there... :)
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Re:Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Y... by cafard on Saturday February 09, 2013 @09:21AM (#5192571)
Suddenly I remember the zero-friction toilet bowls in Jerry Pournelle's The Mote in God's Eye...
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Re:Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Y... by OGinparadise on Saturday February 09, 2013 @05:42AM (#5192279)
Think of the building and infrastructure industry! Paint with this and via, trillions saved (and lots of jobs lost) over time
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Re:Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Y... by chii on Saturday February 09, 2013 @08:26AM (#5192471)
those jobs aren't lost - they are just not needed anymore!
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Re:Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Y... by steve-howard on Saturday February 09, 2013 @07:43PM (#5194812)
That's how structural unemployment works; as I recall economists are pretty sure it's a good thing. Unfortunately because its positive effects are general (everyone gets slightly better off) and the negative effects are local (a few people don't have careers any more), nobody else seems to see it that way.
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Re:Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Y... by OGinparadise on Saturday February 09, 2013 @09:52AM (#5192663)
Such nitpicking makes a lot of difference to an unemployed person.
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Re:Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Y... by nathan_long on Saturday February 09, 2013 @03:30PM (#5193887)
It should. The appearance of a new technology creates value which will be shared by society in some way. If a solar breakthrough removed the need for gasoline, oil workers would lose out in the short run, but every car owner would have more money to spend on other things, so jobs would be created elsewhere. Whereas if oil just disappeared, value would be lost overall.
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Re:Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Y... by fennecfoxen on Saturday February 09, 2013 @12:15PM (#5193104)
Indeed! But it makes a lot of difference to whichever schmucks who had to pay that person, too. Perhaps a few million homeowners spending a few hundred dollars less on painting services every year could buy something more meaningful than a guy standing around on a ladder fixing paint jobs that don't need to be broken.
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Re:Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Y... by dmhdlr on Saturday February 09, 2013 @03:19AM (#5192096)
> The whole cleaning industry could be changed.

By making it obsolete maybe. Sounds like unemployment.

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Re:Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Y... by baddox on Saturday February 09, 2013 @03:56AM (#5192156)
Certainly no more unemployment than was caused by the invention of automobile farm equipment, but I think most people come down in favor of that.
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Re:Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Y... by vacri on Saturday February 09, 2013 @04:27AM (#5192190)
Dirt and grit still accumulates somewhere. Bins still need to be emptied.
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Re:Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Y... by nailer on Saturday February 09, 2013 @03:30AM (#5192110)
And by new jobs spraying coating.
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Re:Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Y... by thomasrambaud on Saturday February 09, 2013 @06:18AM (#5192322)
Not necessary unemployment, maybe conversion. Perhaps cleaning industries will take care of providing and deploying hydrophobic substances in toilets, firms, public services etc.

Or maybe as you suggest it will create a completly new market. It depends entirely on the ability of these companies to move forward.

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