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While swimming is almost always a blast (save for when your boat capsizes), having a soaking wet swimsuit riding up your crack has never been a pleasure. A new company from Brooklyn called Sun Dry Swim is looking to change ass cracks around the world with a new nanotechnology that repels water from the swimsuit. The result is a self-drying suit that makes beads of water roll right off the material. It even provides extra UV protection from the sun, making it the perfect beachwear. Just don’t call it stylish or we’ll have to judge your taste in fashion.

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The product name leads us to believe that the creators of this NanoNuno Umbrella come from the same planet as Robin Williams from Mork and Mindy, yet signs show that the Nanotechnology Umbrella were indeed made on Earth. It’s modeled after the lotus leaf and is said to maintain its dryness and cleanliness for years.

How does the NanoNuno accomplish such a task? Following the elegant design of nature! The reason a lotus leaf seems to have dirt and water drip right off is because of its limited surface space for the molecules to grab onto. The design is so smooth and the fabric so strong, that moisture never makes its way into the fabric to cause any wetness. A quick shake of the NanoNuno and it’d completely dry and clean. The umbrella comes in two colors, Cognac and Black, and is available for £49.95. — Andrew Dobrow

Product Page [Pro-Idee, via Gizmos for Geeks]

Designer Patrick Gunther takes a mix of fantasy and possible futuristic medicine and has designed some prototypes for what he envisions nanotechnology to look like in the future. Gunther thinks that in only forth years time, we might have nanotechnology capable of swimming through our bloodstream, acting as a man-made immune system. AIDS and other immunity deficient diseases would become obsolete.

The designs look like a cross between a moth and a web cam. Yes, we have weird eyes sometimes. Doesn’t the nDoo kind of remind you of those nano creatures from The Matrix? One really cool possibility for the future is that as these flow through our bodies, they can keep up to date with all diseases through a networked database, assuring you of your health or lack there of. — Andrew Dobrow

Design Page [Extrospekt, via Core77]