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The legend of 3M's invisible electrostatic wall (Tue, 21 Jan 2025)
Giant polypropylene rollers at the 3M factory generated so much static electricity that it formed a strange "invisible wall" that would alarm and impede employees there. William Beatty, citing David Swenson, described the peculiar phenomenon in 1996—as observed in late summer in South Carolina, August 1980, in high humidity. — Read the rest The post The legend of 3M's invisible electrostatic wall appeared first on Boing Boing.
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iScanner is better than your desktop scanner (Tue, 21 Jan 2025)
TL;DR: iScanner is better than your desk scanner, and it's $24.99 for life if you use code SCAN by February 2.  How many old sci-fi movies have taken place in the far-off 2020s? It's a bunch. Probably. And in the spirit of being firmly "in the future," we can say goodbye to those tired, ridiculously expensive scanners. — Read the rest The post iScanner is better than your desktop scanner appeared first on Boing Boing.
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