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This piece of metal is unsinkable. WIRED’s Matt Simon spoke with the inventor, Chunlei Guo, about how the superhydrophobic material was created and how it could help prevent disasters at sea. Also, check out the free WIRED channel on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Android TV. Here you can find your favorite WIRED…

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  1. NICHOLAS LANDOLINA

    November 29, 2019 at 12:20 pm

    Phones would be cool

  2. Javier Seah

    November 29, 2019 at 12:41 pm

    mhmm titanic would have found this useful

  3. Uh Bi

    November 29, 2019 at 1:49 pm

    Very interesting but the audio gave me headache.

  4. Interstellarsurfer

    November 29, 2019 at 3:26 pm

    Came here after watching a Titanic video. Good job, algorithm. 🤣

  5. Andre Leonhardt

    November 29, 2019 at 9:36 pm

    2:34 These are no fire ants! 🙄

  6. Aggies02

    November 29, 2019 at 11:19 pm

    much but ya want to bet, CHINA steal this technology if they havent already

    • ex0duzz

      December 2, 2019 at 4:34 am

      Aggies02 the guy is Chinese.. lol

  7. Supreme Sector

    November 30, 2019 at 4:04 am

    I’m curious about how much stress this hydrophobic metal can withstand compared to solid metal.

  8. sanjuansteve

    November 30, 2019 at 5:24 pm

    Unsinkable at this scale where the thickness of the metal is not so much more than the thickness of the trapped air pocket, but what happens when you scale up to boat or ship building metal thicknesses?

  9. prilep5

    November 30, 2019 at 5:40 pm

    Super gliding torpedoes with increased range and more efficient propellers

  10. racketsong

    November 30, 2019 at 7:49 pm

    he will get a nobel for this

  11. TheLinkoln18

    November 30, 2019 at 11:54 pm

    Who would have thought that trapping air would cause buoyancy…

  12. webslinger2011

    December 1, 2019 at 1:35 am

    Awful mic.

  13. Ivan Wright

    December 1, 2019 at 1:46 am

    It’ll just be a boat that can’t get wet lol

  14. jason Hood

    December 1, 2019 at 4:48 am

    Now take a bird and insects wings and do the same thing or make a craft where helium is on the outer shell float in air

    • Bruhw

      December 2, 2019 at 1:18 am

      jason Hood then with the helium, u put a little fire *KABOOM*

  15. JIMMY Huang

    December 1, 2019 at 5:35 am

    I need this on my car

  16. MysteriusBhoice

    December 1, 2019 at 7:17 am

    but then heres the deal tho
    at higher pressure let’s say the pressure of the weight of the ship onto the water will cause the air gap to diminish because all that gas would dissolve in the water
    also movement of the ship will cause even further pressure on the air gap causing failure and it behaving like a non coated metal.
    So the only way to prove it works is if they used a high pressure chamber to mimmic the pressure at which the bottom part of a boat hull would be exposed to

  17. Pritish 491415

    December 1, 2019 at 3:19 pm

    A dislike for the audio

  18. Andrew Martin

    December 1, 2019 at 5:07 pm

    5:18 Did he just say “the martial artist scale”

  19. nexus prime

    December 1, 2019 at 7:58 pm

    Wouldn’t the salt water of the ocean act as a abrasive liquid and scrape off the layer.

  20. EmoryM

    December 1, 2019 at 10:04 pm

    Might not be great for boats. Sounds great for boat keys.

  21. rithish john

    December 2, 2019 at 2:45 am

    Get a scratch paper…
    And sink the ship 😉

  22. CarpIXOYE

    December 2, 2019 at 5:41 am

    Cool research… but producing this laser painted metal is more expensive than producing carbon composite rocket hull…. good luck getting turning this into any practical production vehicle, ONCE they figure out how to produce it at a larger scale.

  23. Gustav Gnöttgen

    December 2, 2019 at 7:28 am

    Ouch headaches.
    Don’t say “unsinkable”.

  24. ClubMayview

    December 2, 2019 at 1:22 pm

    There’s no such thing as an unsinkable ship.

  25. Linktothepast83

    December 2, 2019 at 2:15 pm

    Unsinkable metal doesn’t mean unsinkable boat, simply because a boat would never be only of this metal alone, all the cargo, people, etc. inside would drive it to the bottom of the ocean. Without cargo and people sure it would stay afloat like a wooden plank stays afloat even if it is punctured. Ride that wooden plank though and it will sink. Same here.

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