{"id":74323,"date":"2017-12-11T05:22:50","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T13:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/scientists-have-created-plastic-objects-that-can-connect-to-wi-fi-without-any-electronics"},"modified":"2017-12-17T00:01:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T08:01:25","slug":"scientists-have-created-plastic-objects-that-can-connect-to-wi-fi-without-any-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/scientists-have-created-plastic-objects-that-can-connect-to-wi-fi-without-any-electronics","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Created Plastic Objects That Can Connect to Wi-Fi Without Any Electronics"},"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\/gU6-o9SIkMQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have developed new 3D-printed plastic objects that can hook up to Wi-Fi without the aid of any electronics or batteries, meaning household devices could get a lot smarter in the future without the need for any circuitry.<\/p>\n<p>If that\u2019s not blowing your mind just yet, think about this: the tech could be used to make a laundry bottle that orders a refill online as soon as it runs out, or a simple volume slider that connects to your speakers without any cabling or even a power source.<\/p>\n<p>So how is this possible? To achieve this, a team from the University of Washington built a system comprising a plastic switch, spring, gear, and antenna, which when activated with a press or other movement can absorb or reflect passing Wi-Fi signals in order to communicate.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/3d-printed-plastic-objects-connect-to-wi-fi-no-electronics-batteries\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/3d-printed-plastic-objects-conne...-batteries<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have developed new 3D-printed plastic objects that can hook up to Wi-Fi without the aid of any electronics or batteries, meaning household devices could get a lot smarter in the future without the need for any circuitry. If that\u2019s not blowing your mind just yet, think about this: the tech could be used to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1497,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-energy","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74323","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74337,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74323\/revisions\/74337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}