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This jacket pulls almost a liter of drinking water a day out of the air and it comes out clean enough to drink. Meet Guihua Yu, a material scientist who spent nearly a decade on this. Water harvesting from air has traditionally meant a box or a panel that sits in one place. His team put the material into fabric instead. The jacket is woven from hydrogel fibers that absorb moisture while you walk around wearing it. Here's the part nobody talks about. Getting water out of those materials normally takes serious heat. This hydrogel releases it with barely any warmth at all. Mild sunshine is enough. So you unclip the panels, put them in a small collector and the water evaporates and condenses out. The researchers say it's already distilled by the time it drips and that it meets drinking water standards. Here's where it gets insane. The same lab built a separate unit that pulled 1.3 liters a day in the Chihuahuan Desert, one of the driest places in North America, in the same amount in humid Austin. But the craziest part? This technology has traditionally needed a machine sitting in one place. You's team just turned it into fabric. Follow me to keep up with the latest AI and tech news.

This jacket pulls almost a liter of drinking water a day out of the air and it comes out clean enough to drink. Meet Guihua Yu, a material scientist who spent…