Yeah, we get it,
flexible electronics -- sans application -- are about as exciting as the circuitry under your keyboard. But it's Friday, and this here story has real-live
carbon nanotubes, so you know it's a winner. Takao Someya of the University of Tokyo has built for himself a stretchy, flexible conducting material using carbon nanotubes mixed with a polymer. The nanotubes are mixed into a compound called "bucky gel" to prevent clumping, and after some rubber-like flourinated copolymer is mixed in and it's all poured onto a glass plate, holes are punched in the material to better flexibility. Apparently it ends up looking a bit like a nylon stocking, but we won't hold that it against it, since it can be stretched up to 38%, while also managing to be 100 times more conductive than any other elastic material. The possibilities for such technology is pretty much endless, but we'd say "nylon stocking that is also, conveniently, a computer" is the first product category worth felling.
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posted August 8th 2008 5:56PM
Just think.... A stretchable, flexible computer condom that can
sense and compute in real time, the exact requirements
for the female orgasm!
... and "give" away cancer for free .... good times (for the chemo labs)
kthxbye
thats something that a 13 year old girl would say on myspace.
You sure Steve Jobs would be cool with wearing stockings with an integrated iPhone?
Burn in hell.
C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER
FUCKING WOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!
C'mon Engadget! Ban this guy so hard his grandchildren will feel it. If he ever has any. I'm betting that with this kind of time on his hands, he won't have any.
Loser. Burn in hell.
That is another reason why I hate Apple... they pay people to spam everywhere and creates fanboys that do the same, because they think it's cool. Live would be 100X better without this.
That guy is not a fanboy. He's a troll. nothing more. nothing less.
*Live = life
idiot.
lol
I "ship" you to some foreign country. Poor other guys!
This means that within 10 years, I will be able to throw jumper cables out of my car to instantly electrocute joggers or cyclists who make me feel bad about lazing around in a carbon spewing V8. Thank God for progress.
I'm sorry, I really don't understand this article...
I am just too stoopid to even attempt any of this.
I see a CR2032, some wire, clamps, an LED, and what could just simply be a stick of chewing gum with a wire under it.
Can we get a video of the "stretch" in action?
anti-static wrist straps?
NO i[s]sheep[/s]SHIT .jr the real question is "will this little 12 year old bastard (you) ever fuck off?"
I mean for God sakes shut the fuck up about the iPhone - do you even have an iPhone or are you just a stupid attention seeking twat?
It should have been "a shower curtain with possible application as a portal device"