For starters, check out UltraTech's Ever Dry -- a miraculous nanocoating that can make practically any object impervious to water, oil, dirt and even wet concrete.

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We were rather stoked when Liquipel brought its "watersafe" nanocoating service from California to South East Asia in fall 2012, but it turns out that the Santa Ana-based company had another surprise lined up for us later on.

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