Tom James @ 31-03-2009
News of carbon nanotube and indium nanowire-based supercapacitors that can be bent and twisted like a playing card:
It continues a line of prototype devices created at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering that can perform the electronic operations now usually handled by silicon chips using carbon nanotubes and metal nanowires set in indium oxide films, and can potentially do so at prices competitive with those of existing technologies.
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Its creators believe the device points the way to further applications, such as flexible power supply components in “e-paper” displays and conformable products.
This sounds like the sort of development that could lead to something like The Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer of The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson.
[from Physorg][image from Physorg]
Tomas Martin @ 27-03-2008
Tomas Martin @ 25-02-2008
Exciting times in the world of electronics as phone company Nokia have designed a wearable, flexible phone. Resembling a normal handset folded in half, when fully unrolled it can be used as a keyboard but it can also be folded lengthways and widthways and curled into a bracelet to wear on the wrist.
Although current battery technology isn’t good enough to join this flexible technology revolution as improvements in nanowire batteries and even static electricity generating clothing could mean that in ten year’s time we wear our phone/mp3 player/personal computer on our sleeve and link up our headphones to it wirelessly.
[image and story via the Guardian]
