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Bionic Power makes wearable technology for charging batteries. Today, we are focused on developing our PowerWalk^® Kinetic Energy Harvester for military use and will begin multi-unit field trials with the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps next year. In the future, we see our walk-recharge technology being used in disaster zones and remote worksites, and by consumers in recreational, emergency preparedness and backup applications.

The consumer marketplace is flooded with a lively assortment of smart wearable electronics that do everything from monitor vital signs, fitness or sun exposure to play music, charge other electronics or even purify the air around you — all wirelessly.

Now, a team of University of Wisconsin—Madison engineers has created the world’s fastest stretchable, wearable integrated circuits, an advance that could drive the Internet of Things and a much more connected, high-speed wireless world.

Led by Zhenqiang “Jack” Ma, the Lynn H. Matthias Professor in Engineering and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor in electrical and computer engineering at UW–Madison, the researchers published details of these powerful, highly efficient integrated circuits today, May 27, 2016, in the journal Advanced Functional Materials.

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A device the size of a matchstick, implanted next to the brain’s motor cortex, could one day help paralysed people move their limbs.

The Search For Immortality … https://www.facebook.com/jasonlsilva/videos/1627219640875648/

What do we do when we know everything — including our love for one another — will pass?

A drone that can fly AND go underwater https://www.facebook.com//videos/572388199607050/

A drone that can fly AND go underwater?

Yes, please.

The race is on to develop the first senescent cell clearance therapies (a.k.a., “senolytics”) to reverse the aging process and treat age-related diseases.

MIT scientists invented a coating that makes sure all the ketchup comes out of the bottle.

An interesting procedure for the treatment of deep vein thrombosis.

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