PopSci's Best of What's New

The very cool Nanosolar Powersheet tops the list of Popular Science’s Best of What’s New. There’s a few obvious choices (iPhone) but other wise some amazing tech.

The company produces its PowerSheet solar cells with printing-press-style machines that set down a layer of solar-absorbing nano-ink onto metal sheets as thin as aluminum foil, so the panels can be made for about a tenth of what current panels cost and at a rate of several hundred feet per minute.

Apparently the new Wembly stadium has more toilets than any building in the world. I bet the ladies’ room will still have a line, though.


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  1. […] first saw this tech at PopSci, and now Nanosolar has announced that they met their deadline and are shipping the first batch of […]

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