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Wearable tech flying high in aerospace industry

Wearable devices aren't just about fitness tracking and taking phone calls on your wrist, this technology can change the way we do business.

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ElectroFIED: How our flexible batteries and electrified fabrics can improve wearables

Do smart watches seem like the stuff of sci-fi? You’d best read about what we’ve been cooking up: flexible batteries for wobble board computers, cloth woven from conductive fibres to charge your phone in your pocket, energy harvesting backpack buckles, how about T-shirts with screens on them? Get the Telly Tubbies on the phone.

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Sports science is getting gnarly, dude

A company more traditionally associated with energy drinks has been busy making waves in the world of sports science. Red Bull recently took two top professional surfers and a team of scientists to Mexico to test a range of new performance-enhancing technologies in one of the harshest arenas possible: an overhead, barreling wave breaking only a few...

Holy sunbeams batman: Five places you never thought you’d see a solar panel

As the price of producing solar panels starts to fall and people are finding smarter, thinner and more flexible materials to create them, it seems like no place is safe from these sun sucking devices. Even the humble garden gnome is getting in on the act. To celebrate the arrival of spring and the advent...

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Dead battery? Charge it with your clothes

By Philippa Nicole Barr, University of Technology, Sydney and Glenn Platt, CSIRO What if you could leave home, safe in the knowledge that your phone would not run out of battery before you return? The latest innovations in battery design could see dead batteries become a thing of the past — by producing and storing...

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Smarty pants: wearable electronics will recharge your life

By Adam Best, Senior Research Scientist, Energy Technology. Imagine having a wafer-thin touchscreen on your sleeve which, like a scene out of a Philip K. Dick novel, gives you all the functionality of a smartphone without the awkwardness of a cumbersome battery. The best part about this scenario is it may not be as far...