3-D Printing, Flexible Circuits
October 14, 2014 | Terry Sharrer

Wellness Sensors
Stain gauges are devices that measure a material’s flexibility. This piece reports how researchers at Purdue University (West Lafayette, IN) have engineered a liquid alloy of gallium and indium inside a stretchable polymer that, with 3-D printing, can form networks of flexible sensors. “The authors say that such an elastic technology could one day make possible robots that have sensory skin, and stretchable garments that people might wear to interact with computers or for therapeutic purposes.” The second piece more generally mentions why flexible circuits are “game changers” in medical technology. MORE
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