Click chemistry is a chemical philosophy introduced in 2001 by K. Barry Sharpless that describes chemistry tailored to generate substances quickly and reliably by joining small units together. This is inspired by the fact that nature also generates substances by joining small modular units (wikipedia). “Scientists at UCLA have developed a new microfluidic device capable of [...]
Read Full Post...September 4, 2009
A team at the University of Washington have built a circuit that can run on the available power of a tree. The results will be published in an upcoming issue of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Transactions on Nanotechnology. “As far as we know this is the first peer-reviewed paper of someone powering something entirely [...]
Read Full Post...August 30, 2009
Aerogel is the lightest solid material on the planet, up to 99.98% of its volume can be pure air. It insulates space suits and could be used one day to clean up oil spills. And I’ve just discovered you can make it at home! Here is an article about a 10 year old boy [...]
Read Full Post...August 25, 2009
A follow up to our last post on artificial muscles.. I just found this ebook- Electroactive Polymers for Robotic Applications, Kim K.J., Tadokoro S.(Springer, 2007) The description states: Electroactive polymers (EAPs) respond to electrical stimulation with large deformations. They are dynamic actuators which have attracted attention from an interdisciplinary audience of engineers and scientists. An enabling EAP technology is [...]
Read Full Post...August 19, 2009
A great demo showing some Artificial Muscle - Electro Conductive Polymer from Ishii Lab, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Read Full Post...August 15, 2009
The thesis of Otto von Busch, Fashion-able. Hacktivism and engaged fashion design, is available as an online PDF. This thesis consists of a series of extensive projects which aim to explore a new designer role for fashion. It is a role that experiments with how fashion can be reverse engineered, hacked, tuned and shared among many [...]
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September 21, 2009
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