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FLIP Fluid on Flip Dots Turns a Simple Pun Into Months of Hard Labor

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27
set

Mitxela wanted noise. Years of fluid simulations on LEDs had given him mercury-like sloshing on screens and a tiny wearable pendant, yet every version stayed silent. Flip-dot panels solve that problem by themselves. Each pixel is a physical disk with magnets that slaps from black to yellow and back, and a few thousand of those […]

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Thin Tubes Full of Fluid That Flex Like Living Muscle Are Ready for Robots

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14
jul

A pair of soft white tubes no thicker than a couple of strands of spaghetti rest in a researcher’s hands. They look almost fragile, yet these fibers can pull with the strength of real muscle, stay completely silent while they work, and run for hours on nothing more than a small battery pack. Researchers at […]

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