Yearly Archives: 2010

How the Display Industry Could Drive the Production of Electronic Skin

Electronic skin is flexible, stretchable material with a layer of circuitry on top. It is currently a research novelty, but has a lot of people excited because of its potential to be wrapped around the metal frames of robots, to … Continue reading

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Sail Boats with Wings

In 2004, I had the privilege of visiting some Airbus aerospace engineers in Bristol, UK to see their latest project: a sail boat named Invictus. They had designed the catamaran with a  rigid sail–it looked and acted like an airplane wing–to compete … Continue reading

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