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Engineering Dec 16, 2015

QTemp—a weather station you can wear

Living in Canada means living with unpredictable weather. Neda Ghazi and Alireza Monam, co-founders of Comfable, have made it their goal to help people lead healthier and more comfortable lives with QTemp, a wearable weather ...

Consumer & Gadgets Feb 8, 2012

Google rumored to have built Heads-Up-Display glasses prototype

(PhysOrg.com) -- 9to5Google is reporting that they have received a tip from someone they believe to be a reliable source saying that Google is working on a Heads-Up-Display (HUD) pair of eye-glasses. The person offering the ...

Nanomaterials Dec 20, 2010

UCLA engineers create new transparent electrodes for highly flexible electronics

The development of new electronic applications like thin-film solar panels, wearable displays and non-invasive biomedical devices, which require significant deformation to copy body movements, has heightened the need for ...

Nanomaterials Jan 20, 2010

An electrifying advance toward tomorrow's power suits

Could powering an iPod or cell phone become as easy as plugging it into your tee shirt or jeans, and then recharging the clothing overnight? Scientists in California are reporting an advance in that direction with an easier ...

Nanomaterials Jun 3, 2016

Graphene-based transparent electrodes for highly efficient flexible OLEDS

The arrival of a thin and lightweight computer that even rolls up like a piece of paper will not be in the far distant future. Flexible organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), built upon a plastic substrate, have received ...

Materials Science Dec 14, 2021

Direct writing of customized structural-color graphics with colloidal photonic inks

Colloidal crystals and glasses are tunable, iridescent, nonfading and nontoxic materials that can be used to develop structural colors. In a new report now published in Science Advances, Jong Bin Kim, and a team of researchers ...

Materials Science Dec 22, 2020

Waste to treasure: Crayfish shells to store energy

More than just a spicy night snack, the crayfish has been endowed with greater significance. Prof. Zhu Xifeng's team from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) made ...

Materials Science Jul 29, 2019

Engineers use heat-free tech for flexible electronics, print metal on flowers, gelatin

Martin Thuo of Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory clicked through the photo gallery for one of his research projects.

Nanomaterials Apr 4, 2017

Improving silver nanowires for FTCEs with flash light interactions

Flexible transparent conducting electrodes (FTCEs) are an essential element of flexible optoelectronics for next-generation wearable displays, augmented reality (AR), and the Internet of Things (IoTs). Silver nanowires (Ag ...

Engineering Mar 13, 2015

Necklace and smartphone app can help people track food intake

A sophisticated necklace developed by researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science can monitor food and drink intake, which could help wearers track and improve their dietary habits. 

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