New Connections For Stretchable, Twistable Electronics 60
tugfoigel writes "Jizhou Song, a professor in the University of Miami College of Engineering and his collaborators Professor John Rogers, at the University of Illinois and Professor Yonggang Huang, at Northwestern University have developed a new design for stretchable electronics that can be wrapped around complex shapes, without a reduction in electronic function. The new mechanical design strategy is based on semiconductor nanomaterials that can offer high stretchability (e.g., 140%) and large twistability such as corkscrew twists with tight pitch (e.g., 90 degrees in 1 cm). Potential uses for the new design include electronic devices for eye cameras, smart surgical gloves, body parts, airplane wings, back planes for liquid crystal displays and biomedical devices."
For every day purposes (Score:5, Funny)
Does this make it less likely that my headphone wires won't automatically seek to form the most complex DNA strands in the universe?
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Re:How many... (Score:2, Funny)
Those homonyms are a bitch aren't they?
and the makers of (Score:2, Funny)
pornographic fetishware rejoiced
Re:Devices (Score:2, Funny)
No, Devizes [google.co.uk]. A small English town well-known for its high population of bioscientists :)
Re:This'll fix coiled cables? (Score:1, Funny)
Recently I had the same problem with a Cat5e cable at some other place; 5 meters, half of that from the IP phone to the wall; as soon as I straightened it up, the phone was able to connect.
That's because the 1's get stuck in the turns but the 0's make it through just fine...
Re:For every day purposes (Score:3, Funny)
No, but there's a simple solution to that: stop wrapping your headphone wires around histones.
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So this means I can finally be Dr. Octopus (Score:2, Funny)
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