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Levitated Interaction Element, ZeroN

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2011 Levitated Interaction Element Hiroshi Ishii, Jinha Lee, Rehmi Post ZeroN is about liberating materials from the constraints of space and time by blending the physical and digital world. ZeroN is a new… Continue reading

BioLace

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2010 BioLace Carole Collet (Reader & Dy Director, Textile Futures Research Centre, Central Saint Martins College, London), Biolace Carole Collet, Reader in Textile Futures, Deputy Director TFRC Research Centre, Central Saint Martins College… Continue reading

Hover Bike

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08/21/2012 Hover Bike Aerofex A tiny California research group, real speeder bikes are no longer just a dream in a galaxy far, far away. Created by Aerofex, the rotocraft uses helicopter dynamics to… Continue reading

Flexible solar cells

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12/06/2012 Flexible solar cells John Badding, Penn State University, For the first time, a silicon-based optical fiber with solar-cell capabilities has been developed that has been shown to be scalable to many meters… Continue reading

Transient Electronics

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09/28/2012 Transient Electronics Dissolve in Liquid Tufts Univeristy, University of Illinois, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Biomedical engineers have created electronic devices that wink out of existence at a predetermined point in… Continue reading

Self-Healing Electronics

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07/02/2012 Self-Healing Electronics University of Illinois   Researchers from the University of Illinois have addressed the problem of the short shelf life of electronics and developed an electronic circuit that can self-heal when… Continue reading