Details Matter: It’s in the Attic! | Lexan Polycarbonate Embossed Sheet

Still, the software is still a little more palatable for newcomers than what you’d find on most Xiaomi phones. That’s because while it’s running off of MIUI 9.6, the included launcher is specially designed for the Pocophone and includes things like an app drawer, masking some of the Xiaomi-ness of the software experience with a more familiar UI.

Understanding and improving HTC and CHF in boiling systems has been extensively studied for decades, including the development of a variety of enhancement strategies3,4. Traditionally, the use of enhanced surfaces has been primarily focused on the creation of structures and complex geometries machined into, or attached onto, the boiling surface such as porous materials, sintered wires and meshes, as well as mechanically deformed structures5,6,7. With the development of increasingly precise fabrication tools, micro/nano-structured surface coatings have been explored in recent years, showing substantial increases in boiling performance. A variety of microscale and nanoscale wires, rods, posts, and other structures have been fabricated on silicon chips and shown to enhance HTC and CHF of water anywhere from 50% to 300%, depending on the working fluid8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16. Similarly, micro/nano-structures on copper and other metals have also been demonstrated1,17,18,19. The role that surface structures play in boiling enhancement has been attributed to a variety of factors, including capillary wicking9,12,13,14,17, increased nucleation site densities9,20, and increased contact line pinning10. Additionally, notable increases in HTC have been reported using embossed copper microstructures with specific contoured shapes1. These complex microscale shapes use evaporation momentum force to promote the separation of liquid and vapor flow paths and enhance micro-convection.

Amazingly, the material that keeps beer and body parts cold is also an excellent protective material for the human head. Of course, the EPS used in helmets is different from the white foamy-looking stuff used to chill your six-pack, but the principle is generally the same.

First a few words about Xplore Technologies Corp. of Austin, Texas. They have been making rugged tablet computers for over two decades and they have sold hundreds of thousands of them. It all started with the GeneSys line of ultra-ruggeds. In 2003 came the anvil-tough iX104 family that is now in its 6th generation. In 2013 Xplore introduced the Android-based RangerX tablet, followed by the Bobcat, a Windows version of the same platform. In early 2015 Xplore took over Motion Computing and added that tablet pioneer’s experience and their R12 and C5/F5 tablet products. Then came the XSLATEs B10 and D10, updated and more powerful versions of the Bobcat and RangerX. Last year Xplore pioneered the use of PCIe storage in rugged tablets. There’s a long history of of good design and innovation.

If you’re after maximum protection, I think the Presidio Grip is worth the $39.95/$44.95. It’s expensive, yes, but it manages to cram a ton of protection into a shell not much bigger than a regular case. It even comes in the glittery pink you see above (it’s technically its own product called the Presidio Grip + Glitter)! In regular guise, it also comes in gray, dark blue (currently out of stock), and teal. However, Amazon is out of stock, so you may want to hit a local carrier store or Speck’s site to pick one up.

“I had this vision with the place,” he said. It was details like the exposed wood ceiling beams and the barn doors that caught his eye, specifically. He envisioned a bar that would open out into the street, with an indoor-outdoor feel.

Commute Mode learns your daily drive and, using both historical and real-time traffic information, can suggest alternative routes to help you to reach your destination on time.

“They play together, they work together, and they protect each other,” Robert Brunner, the former Apple design chief, later said of the team. At one of our meetings, Ive reminded me of a short article that Bono wrote about him in Time. It said, “To watch him with his workmates in the holy of holies, Apple’s design lab, or on a night out is to observe a very rare esprit de corps. They love their boss, and he loves them. What the competitors don’t seem to understand is you cannot get people this smart to work this hard just for money.” Ive, Bono’s friend, described these comments as “shockingly perceptive”—which is an unusual response to praise, even shared praise. But the strength, and the professional advantage, of the team’s solidarity is one of Ive’s recurring themes. He was determined to counter “spiteful,” if infrequent, claims that the studio’s spirit is not as collegial as it looks. Doug Satzger, who left Apple in 2008, and now runs industrial design at Intel, told Fast Company that “Jony has a very political agenda when it comes to his positioning within the company. He would tell me, ‘Anytime you meet with Steve, I gotta know.’ ” (Satzger declined to comment.)

The transparent design of the CandyShell Clear case reveals the clean design elements of the iPhone 6. Built of dual layers of polycarbonate, the case meets military-grade standards in drop and scratch protection, and has UV protection to avoid yellowing. Great hand-feel, and easy to slide into a pocket with easy-to-press buttons on its perimeter. — Milo Kahney

Here’s a sneak peek at the new X-Lite X-551 Adventure Touring helmet for 2011. We definitely want to get one of these for a review!

Rahman, M. M., Ölçeroğlu, E. & McCarthy, M. Role of Wickability on the Critical Heat Flux of Structured Superhydrophilic Surfaces. Langmuir 30, 11225–11234 (2014).

He was a few days from starting a three-week vacation, the longest of his career. The past year had been “the most difficult” he’d experienced since joining Apple, he said later that day, explaining that the weariness I’d sometimes seen wasn’t typical. Since our previous meeting, he’d had pneumonia. “I just burnt myself into not being very well,” he said. He had discouraged the thought that Newson’s appointment portended his own eventual departure, although when I spoke to Powell Jobs she wondered if “there might be a way where there’s a slightly different structure that’s a little more sustainable and sustaining.” Comparing the careers of her husband and Ive, she noted that “very few people ever get to do such things,” but added, “I do think there’s a toll.”