This smart knitted fabric can flip switches, count your steps, and even change shape

Harvard researchers created programmable knitted fabric that changes shape, acts as electronic switches, and could power the ...

Infrared Tech Is Decades Old – Why Does Almost Every TV Remote Use It?

Bluetooth may seem the obvious next step in the remote's evolution, but there are reasons that infrared hasn't died out.
Hackaday

Pinch Puts An Arduino On A USB-C Connector

Compared to the Arduino Uno of old, modern microcontrollers are absolutely tiny — especially for the amount of processing ...
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Snapping knits turn fabric into switches that count steps and light LEDs

Knitting has come a long way from sweaters and blankets. Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and ...
Hackaday

LED Hacks

How old is the seven-segment display? Surely it is a product of the 1970s. After all, calculators started showing up, and the height of junior high humor was plugging 7734 into your calculator and ...
Nature

The life and times of the LED — a 100-year history

Many people believe that the LED was discovered by US researchers working in the 1960s. In fact, Henry Round at Marconi Labs noted the emission of light from a semiconductor diode 100 years ago and, ...
Nature

Inorganic LEDs articles from across Nature Portfolio

Efficient 1.55 micrometer light sources are needed for telecom and infrared photonics, but realizing them with perovskite quantum dots is challenging due to bandgap limitations. Li et al. used Er3 + ...
Harvard Business School

Levers of Control: How Managers Use Innovative Control Systems to Drive Strategic Renewal

Simons, R. Levers of Control: How Managers Use Innovative Control Systems to Drive Strategic Renewal. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1995.