Smart Clothing Allows Instant Color Changes and Other Future Tech
Welcome to another fun-filled Monday full of science and
technology news! Let’s start off this week with some fresh innovation from
around the world.
Smart Clothing Allows
Instant Color Changes
From 3D-printed fashion accessories to piercings, smart
fashion is totally in! Why? Because in today’s modern age, people don’t want to
copy their favorite celebrity or fad - they want to look unique and stand out
from the crowd. This is an industry soon-to-be dominated by tech in the future.
As part of Google’s Project Jacquard, an initiative to make
touch-enabled and interactive clothing, researchers at UC Berkeley in
California have made smart threads (called Ebb) that change color when an
electric charge is applied to them, paving the way for display-enabled and
on-the-go color-changing clothing.
“Ebb is an exploration of dynamic textiles created in
partnership with Project Jacquard. The thermochromic pigments change colors in
slow, subtle, and even ghostly ways, and when we weave them into fabrics, they
create calming “animations” that move across the threads. Ebb offers a nuanced
and subtle approach to displaying information on fabrics,” says Laura Devendorf,
a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley leading the development of Ebb technology.
BMW to Launch
Self-Driving Car by 2021
After successfully launching two electric cars (BMW i3 and i8),
BMW is all set to launch the company’s first-ever self-driving car by the year
2021.
“People often ask me, when will we be driving autonomously?
My answer is: We already can,” says BMW CEO Harald Krueger, “In 2018, we will
launch a BMW i8 Roadster. This will be followed in 2021 by the BMW i NEXT, our
new innovation driver, with autonomous driving, digital connectivity,
intelligent lightweight design, a totally new interior and ultimately bringing
the next generation of electro-mobility to the road,” he added.
Samsung to Mass
Produce 256GB SD Card
Samsung has launched the EVO Plus 256GB SD card that offers
the highest external memory available in SD cards today for $250, or Rs.17000. Previously,
the ‘record’ was held by SanDisk (200GB SD card).
The card uses Samsung’s in-house V-NAND technology to offer
read and write speeds of 95MB/s and 90MB/s respectively. It is waterproof,
X-Ray proof, magnet-proof, and temperature proof.
“By providing high-density UFS memory that is nearly twice
as fast as a SATA SSD for PCs, we will contribute to a paradigm shift within the
mobile data storage market. We are determined to push the competitive edge in
premium storage line-ups – OEM NVMe SSDs, external SSDs, and UFS – by moving
aggressively to enhance performance and capacity in all three markets,” said
Joo Sun Choi, EVP, Memory Sales and Marketing at Samsung Electronics.
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