Comments on: Organic metamaterial flows like a liquid, remembers its shape

By: Dan Robinson

Dan Robinson — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:19:30 +0000

I don’t see what’s so special about this. I’ve thought about making a readable sign with helium balloons attached together in a network. If I gathered them together and applied high pressure, they’d collapse and lose their shape. Release them and they’d display meaning again. Would this be a “metamaterial”? What is a metamaterial, simply any artificial material?

By: GAUSS

GAUSS — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:41:32 +0000

Metamaterials, WOW – I’m always amazed by this kind of work. If I wasn’t already in math + AI, I’d be doing metamaterials/nanoengineering work.

By: GatorALLin

GatorALLin — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 18:46:35 +0000

….ever watch an Octopus move its entire body through a very small 1″ opening? Had me thinking of how objects change shape in nature and how cool it is we are still playing catch-up with these ideas. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=949eYdEz3Es

By: Dr.Pratt

Dr.Pratt — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 06:08:36 +0000

literaly 100′s of uses. This is cool.

By: Bri

Bri — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 03:28:08 +0000

Actually the more that I think of it, a GORT ( genetically optimized robotic technology) style robot would have optical properties similiar to a cross between Mystique, from the X men, and the T1000. It could flow like water, copy any shape it sampled,even internal organs, and it could present a metamaterial exterior, capable of cloaking it dynamically from any frequency of electromagnetic radiation. Why wouldn’t DARPA want to explore these hydro gels.

By: Bri

Bri — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 00:30:59 +0000

Don’t be so sure. That little squiggle robot if made at the nanoscopic size would have the capabilities of similiar properties as a T 1000.