by Alfred Poor | August 31, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Power storage for wearable devices poses problems. The ideal solution would pack a lot of energy in a small package, be flexible, be stretchable, and could discharge or recharge rapidly. Unfortunately, that does not describe your typical battery technology....
by Alfred Poor | August 10, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Flat screen display technologies are amazing, especially when you compare them with the industry leader of just one decade ago: the CRT. Even though LCD and OLED displays are thin and light by comparison, they both have one important limitation; you have to create...
by Alfred Poor | August 8, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
How do you power a wearable device? Most of them require electricity, which must be stored so that it is available when needed. But batteries are problematic. They can be bulky, rigid, and filled with messy liquids that can cause trouble if they leak. One promising...
by Alfred Poor | August 5, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
You don’t see this in your typical science fiction space Western movie, but the fact is that stuff wears out and breaks. People traveling to Mars aren’t going to be able to carry enough spare parts to fix everything; they’re going to need a way to...
by Alfred Poor | July 28, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
“Give a kid a hammer, and the whole world looks like a nail.” It’s natural to try to solve problems using familiar tools, which explains why engineers turn to gears and pulleys and wheels and hinges when trying to create a robot that simulates human...
