Tag: SILICONE

Share Tired of waiting in line at the grocery store? Thanks to a team of South Korean researchers, your wait at the checkout might soon get a little shorter. According to Popular Science, scientists from Sunchon National University have discovered a cheap way to print radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags onto plastic film, rather than the more commonly used and expensive silicon. Ideally, ...

Biology and technology are increasingly crossing paths these days, so it comes as no surprise that researchers have found a way to literally fuse the two, creating implantable technology for the 21st century. Researchers have developed a new type of super-thin silicon transistor, which can be embedded on a dissolvable silk-based film (pictured). Brian Litt, associate professor of neurology and ...

As Randy Newman once crooned, "Short people got no reason to live." Far be it from us at Switched to dismiss those who don't measure up to certain height standards, but a doctor out of Madrid, Spain, may have a solution for the vertically challenged, or at least a way to change the general perception of height (if not a person's ability to reach items on the top shelves of kitchen cabinets). ...