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    Electronic skin senses touch

    A pressure-detecting membrane laminated onto a sheet of flexible plastic electronics may lead to artificial skin for robots.

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    Flashy Transistors: Electronic workhorses also shed light

    Researchers have discovered that the transistor can emit light, a yet-untapped talent.

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    Gene Screen: Ultrasensitive nanowires catch mutations

    Researchers have devised a nanowire sensor that binds to DNA molecules and produces an electrical signal almost instantaneously.

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    Gel Bots? Vibrated goo mimics slithery motions

    The ability of soft, jellylike hydrogels to move as do snails, snakes, and inchworms may point the way to a new class of squishy robots that promise to be simple, quiet, and versatile.

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    Gel Bots? Vibrated goo mimics slithery motions

    The ability of soft, jellylike hydrogels to move as do snails, snakes, and inchworms may point the way to a new class of squishy robots that promise to be simple, quiet, and versatile.

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    Glow with the flow

    Potentially usable electricity flows when water is forced through millions of ceramic tubes thinner than a human hair.

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    Glow with the flow

    Potentially usable electricity flows when water is forced through millions of ceramic tubes thinner than a human hair.

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    Wings of Change

    Inspired by the Wright brothers, who steered their first flyer by twisting its pliant wings, engineers are developing versatile and flexible flying machines expected to undergo radical shape changes in flight.

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    Electronic Thread: Fiber transistor may lead to woven circuits

    By coating flexible metal fibers with semiconductors, researchers have developed individual threads that act as transistors and that should be linkable into circuits by means of wires included among a fabric's threads.

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    Plastic Memories: Polymer materials store data permanently

    Researchers have fabricated a memory device that stores data permanently in electrically-conducting polymers.

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    Laser beam powers flying machine

    Caught in a laser's glare on its maiden launch, a lightweight drone with a solar panel demonstrated that continuous flight powered by ground-based lasers is possible.

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    Craft Tech

    The Craft Technology Group at the University of Colorado, Boulder, interweaves computation with craft materials both new and old. This Web site offers glimpses of innovative projects involving the use of software to design mechanical toys and paper sculptures, embedding computation and behavior in simple objects such as tacks and hinges, developing affordable three-dimensional printing, […]

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