{"id":73545,"date":"2017-10-28T19:23:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T02:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/3d-printer-makes-first-wearable-battery"},"modified":"2017-10-28T19:23:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T02:23:19","slug":"3d-printer-makes-first-wearable-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/3d-printer-makes-first-wearable-battery","title":{"rendered":"3D printer makes first wearable \u2018battery\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-printer-makes-first-wearable-battery.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine printing off a wristband that charges your smartphone or electric car with cheap supplies from a local hardware store.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the direction materials research is heading at Brunel University London where scientists have become the first to simply and affordably 3D print a flexible, wearable \u2018battery\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The technique opens the way for novel designs for super-efficient, wearable power for phones, electric cars, medical implants like pacemakers and more.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2017-10-3d-printer-wearable-battery.html\">https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2017&#45;10&#45;3d-printer-wearable-battery.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine printing off a wristband that charges your smartphone or electric car with cheap supplies from a local hardware store. That\u2019s the direction materials research is heading at Brunel University London where scientists have become the first to simply and affordably 3D print a flexible, wearable \u2018battery\u2019. The technique opens the way for novel designs [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,1512,17,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-mobile-phones","category-sustainability","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73545","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}