circuits

Science

Electronic Circuits That Melt Into Your Body

2:48AM Jesus Diaz | It makes me nervous too. I’m not so keen on the idea of circuits enveloped in a silk substrate, which melts into your body leaving just nanometres-thick layers of electronics. But it’s for the best, trust me on this one. More »
Gadgets

Xerox Develops Ink To Print Circuits On Nearly Anything

3:07AM Rosa Golijan | Wearable electronics aren’t news, but being able to make them cheaply and easily is. Xerox has developed an ink with which you can print circuits onto plastic, film, fabric and nearly anything you can think of. More »
Music

CD Case Features Built-In Theremin And Artistic Circuitry

6:10AM Dan Nosowitz | San Francisco electro artist Moldover, like Beck before him, figured out a way to make physical music purchases superior to digital: embrace the physical. In Moldover’s case, that meant cramming an actual working theremin into the CD case. More »
Hardware

Silver Circuit Goo For Thinner Gadgets

10:00AM Brian Lam | The NYTimes has a post on Vertical Circuits, a company that has developed a 3d circuit stacking technology using a silver based epoxy—goo, basically—to closer fuse flash memory chips together. More »
Gadgets

Hmmmm… Breakfast

11:30PM Jesus Diaz | Some people would call these edible circuits—made of all things sugar, spice, and everything nice—”candy.” I call them breakfast ready to be dunked in 100% fat chocolate milk. [Flickr via Boing Boing] More »
Peripherals

Bare Conductive Ink Turns Your Body Into Handy Extension Cord

2:00AM Mark Wilson | Bare is a paint that can transform your body into a circuit (without the inconvenience of electrocuting you). More »
Science

Researchers Develop Transparent Memory, See-Through Electronics Next

4:01AM Mark Wilson | A group of South Korean scientists have developed a transparent memory chip that could be the precursor to completely transparent electronics. More »
Gadgets

Cara Lamp is Crystal-Like LED and Silver Circuit-Board Beauty

9:18PM Kit Eaton | Those little interlaced blades of ice you sometimes get on the edge of ultra-cold things in wet air: that’s the image that popped into my head on seeing the Cara lamp. It’s by designer Andreas Ostwald and that fragile crystal-like shape is composed of interlocked flat white circuit boards with silver tracks, sprinkled with 70 white LEDs. How lighting should be to my mind: simple, elegant and stunning. Though presumably it’s designer status gives it a price premium that’ll place it beyond my lustful reach. [Contemporist via LuxuryLaunches] More »
Gadgets

Fragile Future Modular Lighting System Sprouts LED Dandelions From Your Wall

2:45AM John Mahoney | Make a wish, blow, see if the LED dandelion seeds sprouting from the circuit board on your wall stay or go. That seems to be the idea with Fragile Future 2, a cool modular lighting system by Dutch house Design Drift. Each piece is approximately 20×30cm, and they can be combined in groups of up to 50 for custom wall-climbing circuits. I’ll take some. [Design Drift, Generate Design via Technabob] galleryPost('fragilefuture', 3, ''); More »
Science

Scientists Build Computer Circuit From Brain Cells

1:00AM Sean Fallon | Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel have managed to build reliable logic gates out of neurons instead of wires. The process actually sounds fairly simple: a glass plate is coated with cell repellent then etched with the desired circuit pattern. The pattern itself is coated with a cell-friendly adhesive which forces the cells to grow only in the scratched areas. Because these scratched paths are so thin, the neurons grow in one direction only—forming straight connections around the circuit. This method has been used to replicate an AND logic gate that only produces output when it receives two inputs. More »