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Originally Posted by Alisa
Sorry if I miss this being posted. I haven't seen it yet, but Gizmodo is showing a Braille Ebook Reader concept made by Seon-Keun Park, Byung-Min Woo, Sun-Hye Woo & Jin-Sun Park using an "electroactive polymer". Exciting stuff. |
This looks and sounds like a wonderful device, BUT it is described as a concept rather than a prototype.
Perphaps I am misunderstanding, but to me concept has the impliation of a non-working model of something that they would like to build if the hardware existed.
Does this sort of "electroactive polymer" display containing hundreds of individual actuators actually exist, even just in an laboratory setting ?
I note that the Wikipedia entry for "electroactive polymer" is only a stub
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroactive_polymers
and mentions "artificial muscles" and "application in the field of robotics".