Flexible batteries -- ones that can be repeatedly flexed without losing integrity -- are nothing new in the lab. But Panasonic now says it will start shipping sample units of a flexible LiIon battery at the end of this month. The batteries, about 0.5mm thick, retains more than 99 percent of its capacity when flexed more than 1000 times, even around a 25 mm radius or twisting … [Read more...]
L’Oreal and MC10 Team Up on Beauty Tech: CES
The cosmetics firm L'Oreal is not one you'd expect to see at a CES, which skews heavily to the electronic. Yet here is Guive Balooch, Global VP of its Technology Incubator, sitting with MC10 Co-founder Roozbeh ("Rooz") Ghaffari, both of them sporting blue heart-shaped stickers on their hands. Those stickers, they explain, track exposure to the sun, but do it in two … [Read more...]
Researchers Develop Stretchable Antenna to Work on Fabric
Frequent readers know that we're always on the lookout for technology that's compatible with fabrics and clothing. Researchers at North Carolina State University have produced an antenna that can be stretched or rolled, enabling wearable sensors to better communicate with remove devices. We heard a lot about printing silver nanowires onto fabric at the Flexible Electronics … [Read more...]