US Canteen is the new word in reusable water bottle bling. US Canteen makes reusable water bottles for the hipster set, which is good news because currently only about 23% of plastic disposable water bottles are recycled in the U.S. Not cool.

I recently got a Como US Canteen (shown above) to try out and here’s the scoop.
US Canteen makes the most stylish reusable water bottles (uscanteens) and carriers I’ve ever seen and while some aspects of their bottles bother me (can you say leather) I like their water bottles because I think they’ll appeal to another whole group of water [...]

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US Canteen: Ultra Stylish Water On-the-Go

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Engineering assistant prof. Dane Morgan and Ph.D. student Edward (Ted) Holby, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that making the fuel cells from very small platinum nanoparticles decreases their lifetime. Making them bigger is, though, better.

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The Battery Wizard is a new gadget that tries to re-enable batteries otherwise good to be thrown away. Of course, rechargeable batteries are always handy and ready to be charged, but for ages I’ve known that trying to charge a normal, single use battery ended up in an explosion.

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