It's admittedly rare that I can make it through dinner without spilling anything on myself, but last night I did it on purpose, pouring Sriracha, red wine, and chocolate sauce on a new white T-shirt to see what would happen.

Everything slid off—in the case of the hot sauce, with the help of a napkin—and the shirt looked exactly as clean as it had before. The manufacturer, one of a handful of companies making "hydrophobic" clothing, uses nanotech to repel liquids from the cotton fabric.

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