{"id":4494,"date":"2012-11-28T20:26:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T20:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/self-filling-water-bottle-mimics-desert-beetles\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T00:24:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T00:24:17","slug":"self-filling-water-bottle-mimics-desert-beetles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/self-filling-water-bottle-mimics-desert-beetles\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4494 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/self-filling-water-bottle-mimics-desert-beetles\/attachment\/4495\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tumblr_me7sswrhiL1qzxaqho1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tumblr_me7sswrhiL1qzxaqho1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/tumblr_me7sswrhiL1qzxaqho1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2012\/11\/namib-beetle-bottle\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:%20wired\/index%20(Wired:%20Top%20Stories)\" target=\"_blank\">Self-Filling Water Bottle Mimics Desert Beetle&rsquo;s Wings <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pretty cool:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NBD Nano says it has achieved proof of concept with its dual water-attracting (superhydrophilic) and water-repelling (superhydrophobic) bottle design, and is currently working on a prototype and seeking funding. Incredibly, the team predicts that the bottle could collect between half a litre and three litres of water per hour, depending on the local environment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-Filling Water Bottle Mimics Desert Beetle&rsquo;s Wings Pretty cool: NBD Nano says it has achieved proof of concept with its dual water-attracting (superhydrophilic) and water-repelling (superhydrophobic) bottle design, and is currently working on a prototype and seeking funding. Incredibly, the team predicts that the bottle could collect between half a litre and three litres of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/self-filling-water-bottle-mimics-desert-beetles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4496,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4494\/revisions\/4496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}