Artificial Muscle Heals Itself, Charges iPod

[Emporius]

"We've made an artificial muscle that, when you apply electricity to it, it expands" more than 200 percent, said Qibing Pei, a scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles and study author. "The motion and energy is a lot like human muscles."

As the material contracts after an expansion the rearranging of the carbon nanotubes generates a small electric current that can be captured and used to power another expansion or stored in a battery.

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It's a series of tubes...


Edit: Sweet Jesus it's my birth date post

 

[Vegeta897]

Graph of my face while reading the thread title.

"Artificial Muscle Heals Itself, Charges iPod"
:|:|:|:cheese::cheese::cheese::|;angry:

 

[Raziaar]

Pictography is for children.

 

[MJ12]

I sense future corpse reanimation. Since they also power Ipods, I suspect they will be activated by music, much like in the film Weekend at Bernie's 2.

 

[Emporius]

I sense future corpse reanimation. Since they also power Ipods, I suspect they will be activated by music, much like in the film Weekend at Bernie's 2.

Im sure these respectable scientists will use an actual chicken

 

[Kula Meenur]

lol and happy birthday

only bad thing about this: anyone who has spent a good portion of their life working out and excercising to build muscle now says - "well, **** it, a machine can make me looks like a hulk much faster" - and then get less motivated imo... lol just front up the cash!!!

on the flipside, it's a medical marvel and can help out a shit-load the disabled (people with muscular distrophy and other degenerative disorders and diseases etc), in a huge number of ways

 

[theotherguy]

lol and happy birthday

only bad thing about this: anyone who has spent a good portion of their life working out and excercising to build muscle now says - "well, **** it, a machine can make me looks like a hulk much faster" - and then get less motivated imo... lol just front up the cash!!!

on the flipside, it's a medical marvel and can help out a shit-load the disabled (people with muscular distrophy and other degenerative disorders and diseases etc), in a huge number of ways

Not to mention (in my opinion) its most important application: cheap and efficient bipedal robots.

 

[MJ12]

oh it's empo's birthday, happy birthday!