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Giz Bill Nye Explains: The iPhone 3GS's Oleophobic Screen

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N@tedog
06/24/09

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Who else read this in their head in Bill Nye's voice accompanied by various ambient bleeps, bloops whirs and stirs?
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Nick
06/24/09

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give Bill a commenter account so i can heart click him. and if he uses facebook, don't tell me, i don't wanna know.
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ceilingFANBOY
06/24/09

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I love the three levels of explanation for everything so that everyone can feel like they are being talked to. The explanation that chemists will understand, the slightly more specific explanation for those who are science oriented but not necessarily chemists, and then the "a rock" explanation for those who are completely ignorant to science.
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IsLaNd3r - and the chipmunks
06/24/09

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I think the most common term for "oleophobic" is hydrophilic. Which means something that likes water. Actually I've never heard the term oleophobic being used before.
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scarbrtj
06/24/09

Oh. I thought oleophobic meant fear of eating olestra and the resultant anal leakage. :(
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AmphetamineCrown
06/24/09

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Now I wanna see an oleophobic screen under a microscope... Little balls of skin oils... Sure it looks very nasty.
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Purple Dave
06/24/09

@AmphetamineCrown:
Yeah, that's kinda what I was envisioning, only larger balls that can be seen with the naked eye.
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balls187
06/24/09

@Purple Dave: Give me ur email address. I'll send you a few pictures of large balls.
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Purple Dave
06/25/09

@balls187:
Been peeking through my bathroom window again? Geez, I thought we'd put a stop to that...
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Grendel
06/24/09

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I'm sorry to be the chemist of the lot, but "organic" chemicals do not necessarily come from "organisms". In fact, most "polymers" are synthetic compounds and the "organic" only refers to the fact that it is carbon/hydrogen based.

/pewpew?
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kagekiri
06/24/09

@Grendel: Maybe he's defining the root of the word, rather than what it denotes? He does it with a lot of other words in the post too.
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ceilingFANBOY
06/24/09

@kagekiri: Considering "from organisms" is in between "organic" and "compounds," that seems like the most logical explanation.
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Grendel
06/24/09

@kagekiri: well, in that case its still wrong. The origin of the word Organic is Greek from "organikos" which means (Organ) not Organism.
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92BuickLeSabre
06/24/09

@Grendel: (Take Two) Holy crap you're smart! What are you doing commenting here!?! Hurry! Stop wasting your precious time with us idiots!
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Grendel
06/24/09

@92BuickLeSabre: Why should something incorrect automatically be digested by readers by an alleged authority without question?

There is a fundamental mistake in the general science of the article 9which purports to be insight into the science of an aspect of the ipohones' screen) and people should know its not correct. The guy made quasi-interesting-low-budget-pop-science-vids for elementary school children, doesn't make everything he says correct.

Can I get a /pewpew!
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92BuickLeSabre
06/24/09

@Grendel: Fine.

/pewpew!

But I only did that cause I like to go /pewpew, not because I still don't think you were being a little overbearing.

/pewpew!
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nutbastard
06/24/09

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but is it oreophobic? lotsa geeks love them some junkfood.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
06/24/09

@nutbastard: Uhm, did he call glass a solid? Last I knew glass was Silicon's supercooled liquid form, not solid...
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Charles Ip
06/24/09

@Six Demon Bag: Lite: For simplicity's sake, people stick with solid. My grade 10 teacher wouldn't even listen me to say it's liquid.
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Rabid Penguin
06/24/09

@Charles Ip:

Glass isn't a liquid, it's an amorphous solid.
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Barry99705
06/24/09

@Six Demon Bag: Lite: No, you probably thing it will sag over time too. It doesn't. Glass is a solid, not a "really thick" liquid.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
06/24/09

@Barry99705: Obviously this has changed since I was in school then. Previously it was taught that it was a supercool liquid.
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Rabid Penguin
06/24/09

@Six Demon Bag: Lite: It really hasn't changed. When I went to high school, some of our teachers (and textbooks) said the same thing. But it has never been a super-cooled liquid. Some teachers (and books) were simply perpetuating a myth.
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Sora57
06/24/09

@Rabid Penguin: so its no longer a mythtery.
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Rabid Penguin
06/24/09

@Sora57: Case closed.
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92BuickLeSabre
06/24/09

@Grendel: Holy crap you're smart! What are you doing commenting here!?! Hurry! Stop wasting your precious time with us idiots!
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92BuickLeSabre
06/24/09

@92BuickLeSabre: See! See what an idiot I am! I commented in the wrong thread!
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zenpoet
06/24/09

@nutbastard: Oleophobic makes me think of Olestra chips. Use the iPhone's new coating, and it causes anal leakage, because the oil on your fingers no longer has anything to stick to, so it dribbles out your anus.
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Sora57
06/24/09

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Wow. He even managed to work in a mention of a wet bikini.
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dustin91
06/24/09

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So will the screen protectors that have been out for previous iPhone generations work with this one? I like mine clean, sure... but I also want to avoid scratches.
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ceilingFANBOY
06/24/09

@dustin91: Depends on what you mean by work. Will you be able to use your phone? Yes. Will the oleophobic layer do anything for you? No. This layer won't magically turn a screen protector that wasn't oleophobic into a screen protector that is oleophobic, so whatever results you were getting using a screen protector before will continue to be the same results you get now.
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