Scientists have created a material that can think under stress
The engineered material can sense physical touch and now scientists want it to also processs visual information.
Tag: electronics
What are sensors, how they work, and why they’re everywhere
They tell us what's going on in nature, in a way that's easy to read and understand.
Atom-thick heat shield could make smartphones even thinner
A new insulating material that's 50,000 times thinner than a sheet of paper could make electronics even more compact.
Scientists create gold one million times thinner than a fingernail
The authors call this a "landmark achievement."
Stretchable electronics could be as ‘multipurpose as your phone’
A new approach in how we can work with electronics.
Stretchy, bendy electronic circuits paves way to new wearable tech, bioimplants
They're bending the rules!
Scientists build electrical circuit out of four-stranded DNA
The research could inspire a novel class of microelectronics based on DNA.
Scientists embed flexible, washable integrated circuits into fabric
Smart clothing just got sleeker.
Cheap but smart glove translates American Sign Language into text
The device could enable people with speech impairment to communicate easier.
Atomic-sandwich material could make computers 100 times more energy efficient
Don't need a calculator to know that's a lot.
Researchers double WiFi broadband while halving chip size
A new circuit was demonstrated at the 2016 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference this past February that can, among ...
Device harvests energy from walking to charge your mobile and wearable electronics
A promising power generation system uses the energy you expend walking or running to power mobile devices.
The Electronic Rose
When is a rose not a rose? When it's a transistorized electronic circuit, of course. Scientists at Sweden's Linköping University ...
Check out the world’s first 3D electronics printer
I love disruptive technologies, and 3D printing is undoubtedly one of the leading such movements in the 21st century. This ...
A first step towards making ‘plastic’ semiconductors for stretchy-electronics
Stanford chemical engineers have developed a theoretical model that sheds light on the electrical conductivity properties of polymers. Their work ...
How electronics waste is causing a global ecological time bomb
An e-waste dump in Nigeria. Some 50 million tones of hazardous e-waste, various electronics that have long met their life ...
Graphene transistors made using DNA assembly
To the right is a honeycomb of graphene atoms. To the left is a double strand of DNA. The white ...
Stretchy electronic circuits mimic nature and allow for flexible computers
(c) Rafael Libanori, Randall M. Erb and André R. Studart Flexible electronics are still in their infancy, however scientists have ...
Flexible, high speed electronics built using nanocrystals might open new doorways
Nanocrystals have always interested researchers since their electrical and thermodynamic properties show strong size dependence, which could potentially lead to ...
Biodegradable electronics – are here today, gone tomorrow
Dissolvable electronic materials could be extremely useful in medical procedures and environmentally friendly gadgets - and they're almost here. Dissolving ...
Self-healing circuits restore electrical conductivity in an instant
In the age where consumer electronic are purposely built with short lived life cycles, there might seem to be no ...
Digital contact lens grants Terminator-vision
A group of ophthalmologists and optoelectronics scientists are currently working on contact lens that can display information directly to the retina. So ...
Future devices will rewire themselves thanks to nanomaterial tech
Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a new nanomaterial of exciting properties, which will allow for the computer of the ...
