{"id":145304,"date":"2022-09-01T00:22:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T05:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/wearables-take-logical-step-toward-onboard-control"},"modified":"2022-09-01T00:22:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T05:22:52","slug":"wearables-take-logical-step-toward-onboard-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/wearables-take-logical-step-toward-onboard-control","title":{"rendered":"Wearables take \u2018logical\u2019 step toward onboard control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GAlGReu_fJk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For all the talk about embedding computers in clothing, here\u2019s an interesting option. Make the clothing the computer, and do it without electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Mechanical engineers at Rice University\u2019s George R. Brown School of Engineering are trying the concept on for size with a set of textile-based pneumatic computers capable of digital logic, onboard memory and user interaction.<\/p>\n<p>The lab\u2019s \u201cfluidic digital logic\u201d takes advantage of how air flows through a series of \u201ckinked\u201d channels to form bits, the 1s and 0s in computer memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all the talk about embedding computers in clothing, here\u2019s an interesting option. Make the clothing the computer, and do it without electricity. Mechanical engineers at Rice University\u2019s George R. Brown School of Engineering are trying the concept on for size with a set of textile-based pneumatic computers capable of digital logic, onboard memory and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}