This is pretty cool, I love engineering and stuff...
At some point soon, we'll have wireless everything--wireless
charging, wireless syncing, wireless video, wireless audio. We've already got a
lot of that stuff, in fact. But today, we still need wires and cables, and a
new creation from researchers at North Carolina State University could make
them much more usable--by making them stretchy.
The basic construction of the new super-stretchy wires is an
elastic tube filled with a highly conductive liquid metal alloy. Other attempts
at stretchy wires, say the researchers, have relied on embedding conductivity
into elastic, as opposed to separating them. The wires can be stretched up to
eight times their original length, which is pretty amazing--an order of
magnitude more stretchy than existing stretchy wires.
