While smartphones can do almost anything, from tracking your heart rate to organizing every aspect of your life, there‘s one thing that these super hero phones haven‘t been able to conquer: water damage. Up until now, that is.
Introducing nanocoating – a new form of innovative technology (or science, if you will) that will protect your smartphone from water damage, thus making it that much more “˜smart‘.
Nanocoating is the brain child of P2i, a nanotechnology service provider, that developed and now manufactures this nanocoating tech.
The company has previously delved into waterproof technology. Back in 2011, they helped developed the ‘splash proof’ Motorola Droid RAZR. However, this new tech is taking ‘splash proof’ to the next level and making it truly waterproof.
P2i showed off their incredible new technology at the MWC in Barcelona recently. Here, they (quite literally) proved that by nanocoating a phone, no water will damage any inch of it.
They placed a Samsung Galaxy S4 in a fish bowl filled with water. That‘s right, a smartphone completely submerged under water.
And don‘t think the phone was in there for a few minutes – no. The phone, with timer running on its screen, was placed in the water for more than 2 hours.
Other “˜waterproof‘ phones can typically only withstand H2O for 30 minutes. However, with P2i‘s nanocoating, these phones will be able to withstand water damage apparently forever.
The technology works quite simply: The nanocoating develops a super thin polymer layer on the phone. This layer lowers the surface energy of the object (smartphone) which then, in turn, prohibits disruption of intermolecular bands within a liquid.
Or for us non-scientists, it basically creates a layer around the phone so that liquid doesn‘t stick to it. Amazing.
P2i said that this tech will show up on a smartphone this year. Which smartphone it will be, however, remains to be seen. Judging by the fact that they used an S4 to illustrate the nanocoating‘s prowess, we‘re guessing the tech will stay in the Samsung family.
Either way, we hope that all smartphones will eventually be nanocoated – it‘s the future!
Source: CNET
