Accelerating Future & 10 Interesting Futuristic Materials

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From the page: "Aerogel holds 15 entries in the Guinness Book of Records, more than any other material. Sometimes called �oefrozen smoke”, aerogel is made by the supercritical drying of liquid gels of alumina, chromia, tin oxide, or carbon. It�s 99.8% empty space, which makes it look... more

Reviewed by FAIRYUSER Jun 23 2008, 04:22pm ( 68 reviews ) • acceleratingfuture.com

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Reviewed by derobert on Sep 09, 9:07pm

pretty sure that last bit on "e-textiles" is bs. stills are from a youtube video where the background is projected realtime over the foreground to make it look transparent... i think?
Rated by Iron02 on Aug 20, 11:11pm

There are a lot of typos here.
Reviewed by amateur6 on Aug 10, 9:13am

If you haven't heard of these, welcome to the 21st century. Aside from e-textiles, which are a frickin' joke.
Reviewed by clintyfresh on Aug 03, 4:38pm

This is the EXACT same one I read yesterday, except the pictures apparently weren't good enough so they took new ones.
Rated by rain-babe on Jul 12, 6:09am

Wow. I can just barely understand what I'm reading here, but it's exciting!
Rated by wvwvwwvvw on May 20 2009, 9:20am

Aerogel is cool, but extremely brittle. I totally crushed a piece I got from United Nuclear because I didn't know how fragile it was. Also, it leaches moisture from your skin if left in contact with it for some time.
Rated by vypressme on Oct 30 2008, 12:01pm

Impressive
Rated by brocklanders79 on Oct 28 2008, 2:39pm

"It's empty space, which makes it look semi-transparent" Badass

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