Self-Healing Fabric Helps Repair Torn Clothes and Other Future Tech on 17-August-2016
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Self-Healing Fabric Helps
Repair Torn Clothes
Ever experienced the trauma of tearing a very expensive
piece of clothing? Most people would just dispose it, but in the future, you
might not have to. That’s exactly what Pennsylvania State University
researchers have just demonstrated – fabric that can repair itself after
damage.
“Textile manufacturers can coat already-made fabric with the
liquid. The coated fabric then has a self-repair ability automatically built
into it. Additionally, cloth can be made using fiber that’s actually produced
with the protein. This way the cloth will inherently have the ability to
self-repair with the application of pressure and water,” explains Melik Demirel,
Engineering Science and Mechanics professor at Pennsylvania State University.
Surprisingly, they found the protein in squid tentacles. He
adds, “Squid is a limited resource. So we needed to replicate this unique
property found in squid protein using biotechnology and other substances.”
Industrial Robot by
French Designers Might Ink Your Next Tattoo
Getting a tattoo is strictly human business – that is,
artificial intelligence cannot quite understand the intricacies associated with
tattoo design. French designers Johan Da Silveira and Pierre Emm, who are
partners of design studio Appropriate Audiences, have just released their
state-of-the-art robotic tattoo artist, which is essentially an automatic
tattoo machine of the future.
“With tons of support from the Autodesk Applied Research
Lab, we did the first ever tattoo by an industrial robot,” says Emm, “This
project is looking like it will include at the very least a Fusion 360 for
designing the end effector (tattoo head) and Dynamo to help control the
movement of the robot itself.”
“To be tattooed by a robot represents for us the
accomplishment in the development of our process which we have worked towards. Behind
the machine is a lot of human involvement. The tattoo also represents the connection
between the tool and the person piloting the machine. We work very hard on the
question of hygiene and security to bring the process to the highest level
possible,” he adds.
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