Autonomous flying surveillance is a minor holy grail at the moment, hence the interest in a novel new material. Electroactive paper (EAPap) can be made to bend and flex under the influence of an electrical field, thanks to the thin coating of gold on its surfaces and some ionic effects. Researchers hope this property could be exploited to produce ultralight surveillance ‘dragonflies’ that fly by flapping EAPap wings.
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This is something that I have been forever thinking should be done. There must be someone out there who can testify that I made a fool out of myself dropping countless pieces of paper saying that if only it could be manipulated… Alas, such is life. And I would like to point out that I appeared a fool while these researchers appear as geniuses: perhaps IQ is circular or maybe does at least contain multiple dimensions. We have geniuses who are pretty loopy and then we have idiot savants. Just an observation, maybe I am not that bad off after all…