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And the optical components, if you look at the inset up on the right, we had to figure out a way to manufacture lenses in paper itself at really high throughputs, so it uses a process of self-assembly and
surface
tension to build achromatic lenses in the paper itself.
There are some that are adapted to the high-light intensities in the
surface
water, and there are some that are adapted to the low light in the deep ocean.
They're tuned such that they easily collapse in one direction to pull the leg out from debris, but they're stiff in the other direction so they capture disparities in the
surface.
One of the ones I'm passing around is climbing up this vertical
surface
that's a smooth metal plate.
It looks, in fact, like it's swimming up the
surface.
It's actually functioning as a paddle even though it's interacting with a
surface
that we normally think of as a solid.
There's an ant crawling up a vertical
surface.
They peel away from the
surface
like you'd peel away a piece of tape.
So you just get a bigger and bigger ball of whatever that is mixed with your tears on your eye until eventually, the ball becomes so big that the
surface
tension takes it across the bridge of your nose like a tiny little waterfall and goes "goosh" into your other eye, and now I was completely blind outside the spaceship.
Besides, once the first drivers explain to their confused car that the giant chicken at the fork in the road is actually a restaurant, and it's okay to keep driving, every other car on the
surface
of the Earth will know that from that point on.
The actuators come in, find the
surface
of the limb, measure its unloaded shape, and then they push on the tissues to measure tissue compliances at each anatomical point.
You can see it has to be really, really wide in order to have a high enough
surface
area to process all of the air required, because remember, we're trying to capture just 400 molecules out of a million.
Using the liquid-based approach to do this, you take this high
surface
area packing material, you fill the contactor with the packing material, you use pumps to distribute liquid across the packing material, and you can use fans, as you can see in the front, to bubble the air through the liquid.
So air contactors for direct air capture have this unique characteristic design, where they have this huge
surface
area, but a relatively thin thickness.
You can see that dark, opaque panel on the front, and it's particularly better for the surface, where being backlit and providing a silhouette is problematic.
So my first attempt at this was at the MIT Media Lab with Professor Hiroshi Ishii, and we built this array of 512 different electromagnets, and together they were able to move objects around on top of their
surface.
So I wanted to build something where you could have this kind of interaction on any tabletop
surface.
Jesse Owens, on the other hand, ran on cinders, the ash from burnt wood, and that soft
surface
stole far more energy from his legs as he ran.
Biomechanical analysis of the speed of Owens' joints shows that had been running on the same
surface
as Bolt, he wouldn't have been 14 feet behind, he would have been within one stride.
That's the difference track
surface
technology has made, and it's done it throughout the running world.
It's the same reason that a radiator has long coils, to increase
surface
area compared to volume to let heat out, and because the leg is like a pendulum, the longer and thinner it is at the extremity, the more energy-efficient it is to swing.
Ultra-endurance was once thought to be harmful to human health, but now we realize that we have all these traits that are perfect for ultra-endurance: no body fur and a glut of sweat glands that keep us cool while running; narrow waists and long legs compared to our frames; large
surface
area of joints for shock absorption.
Deforestation changes the climate by changing the
surface
properties and how water is evaporated and moved around in the system.
How does pollution, which you can see in the white wisps of sulfate pollution in Europe, how does that affect the temperatures at the
surface
and the sunlight that you get at the
surface?
And mammals got bigger, their brains got bigger at an even faster pace, and the neocortex got bigger even faster than that and developed these distinctive ridges and folds basically to increase its
surface
area.
Real beauty is when the invisible joins the visible, coming on
surface.
So we decided to bring the water up on top of the surface, seven feet above tide, and then cast the figures full length, six feet, multiply them across the surface, in tabby, and then allow people to walk across that divide.
But we've really only scratched the
surface
of what we can do with this approach.
There is 10 times more gold, silver, platinum, palladium in one ton of our electronics than in one ton of ore mined from beneath the
surface
of the earth.
Or do you ever worry, when you visit a friend, about leaving a little piece of you behind on every
surface
that you touch?
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