Not many inventions change the world, but an engineer at the Northeast Maritime Institute has invented a way to waterproof practically anything — starting with portable marine electronics — using a molecules-thin, invisible coating that permeates every surface, inside and out.
- cmiper
from Bookmarklet
So it makes things impermeable to water but apparently still permeable to air? And it's not a membrane but something that is somehow applied in a vacuum chamber? And how could a gas or liquid be applied in a vacuum? This is vexing.
- Rob Sterling
Presumably it is a vacuum no more when the coating is applied ;)
- Josh Perfetto