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If you’re the type of person who likes their case to be unique, a Live Case is pretty much the only way to go. You can print your own photo, get a map of any location, or have a piece of artwork printed on the back. The cases these prints are attached to aren’t bad, but they’re certainly not the best. Spend the extra $10 for the $50 dual-layer model if you’re getting one of these, as the slim version is just a slippery piece of plastic that will probably shatter as soon as it’s dropped.

I was walking around with Richard Howarth and Julian Hönig; they stared, slightly dazed, at people handling objects that only they had handled for years. When a product demonstrator gave me his pitch, they interrupted with design footnotes. “The materials in this thing are insane,” Howarth said. People, he noted, were saying that the watch’s face was made of “sapphire glass”: “It’s not glass, it’s sapphire crystal—completely different structure. And then the stainless steel is super-hardened. And the zirconia ceramic on the back is co-finished with sapphire as well.” He added, “This would cost so much money if a different company was making it—Rolex or something. It would be a hundred grand or something.”

Finished space on the lower level offers the added versatility to suit a variety of needs such as a recreation room, play room, home theater, office or gym.

While structured surfaces have been shown to greatly increase boiling heat transfer, the reliability of these approaches for real-world applications is in question due to a variety of factors. All structured surfaces are inherently susceptible to mechanical failure (breaking of the micro/nano-structures), as well as fouling and clogging over time. During boiling, any and all contaminants within the fluid will inevitably be drawn into the structures. This will lead to clogging and filling of the small micro/nano-scale voids, and thus a loss of enhancement19. Similarly, the robustness of extremely thin nanostructured coatings (≤1 μm) has not yet been demonstrated, leaving the potential for the coatings to be destroyed or altered over time via chemical reactions21. The use of low-surface-energy materials to promote nucleation at small superheats has been successfully demonstrated as well22,23,24,25, however these biphilic surfaces are prone to degradation of the thin non-wetting films. Additionally, they are not effective with all working fluids, in particular highly wetting fluids like FC-72. While doubly reentrant surfaces have been demonstrated to repel these highly wetting fluids26, their use in biphilic designs for boiling enhancement has not yet been demonstrated.

I’m not going to lie; I thought that the Peel might actually be the exact same case as the MNML, just rebranded, before I was able to compare them in person. After all, they’re both super-thin cases made of the same material with the same basic design. In my opinion, the Peel has a slightly better design, but it’s also more expensive than the MNML.

This is a sample EPS liner showing three different EPS densities used in different parts of the liner to help control the forces that are incurred in a crash. The white area illustrates the most obvious difference between a different density used in the top of the liner compared to the sides:

I know a lot of people who stick one of those cardholders on the backs of their cases. If you have an ID or credit/debit card that you access frequently, you might want to consider getting one. Alternatively, you could buy a Ghostek Exec 2 and not have to add anything. Which route should you take?

I can’t recommend a purchase of this case given its $40 price. On top of that, you’ll have to spend at least another $35 on a UA Connect mount if that’s what you intend to buy this case for. For $75, I’m sure there’s a more cost-effective solution out there. At least it looks like a case that someone who goes to the gym often would use. Verizon’s currently offering it for $29.99, for what it’s worth.

Post dinner, pick from a selection of artisanal single-estate Coorg coffees like Sunkissed, Aromatique and Parama from The Flying Squirrel.

“The situation here caught us by surprise,” said Reyes, whose company bought the complex in 2014, inheriting the problems of four owners who had come before.

material: galvanized steel, metal mesh, perforated metal panel, plywood, OSB, larch, polycarbonate sheet, glass floor

The cloth covering the table nearest the door was curiously flat. “This is actually complicated,” Ive said, feeling through the material. “This will make sense later. I’m not messing with you at all, I promise.”