UTEC

Remember the water bottle that filled itself from the air using hydrophobic and hydrophilic surfaces?

Now, brilliant minds from the University of Engineering and Technology in Peru have deployed a functional billboard that absorbs water from the humid climate, filters it, and instantly makes it available to the locals for drinking, cooking and dumping on their heads.

Credit: Bonfire Health

News from the brainy folks over at MIT’s materials research department: a film that can generate energy from water vapor in the air!