The expanded device is revealed to generate electromotive forces close to 1 V and shows heat generation with temperature rise of >30 °C in air when resonated using an RF source power of 320 mW.
The current hurdle to the flexible device and fold-out screen dream is that the electronics powering the flexible displays are not yet themselves flexible, But science fiction-like expanding devices could become a reality in the next 10 years.
The proposed inchworm-type actuator consists of three main components with frictional clamping mechanisms: two clamping or braking devices and one expanding device.
Netflix said in a letter to shareholders that it had benefited from a "virtuous cycle" of "increased investment in streaming content, strong word of mouth and an expanding device ecosystem".
The two frictional clamping devices provide alternating braking forces when the moving shaft, which is pushed by expanding device, walks inside the PZT tubular stack and emulates an inchworm, summing small steps to achieve large displacements.
The company is opening up Fi — and renaming it to Google Fi — and officially expanding device support to most popular Android phones, as well as iPhones.
Update 1 to Windows 8.1 was a large release, improving the boot preferences of the operating system, expanding device support, and also adding new user interface elements that made the platform far easier to use.
The maximum pullout force of the expandable device expanded was significantly higher than that of the common screw and the expandable device unexpanded (3,035.48 N vs. 1,827.38 N and 2,333.49 N).
Mr Elop, a Canadian, will initially head an expanded Microsoft devices business, including its Surface PC, sourcing, customer logistics and supply chain.
Expanded to devices for boats, planes, hikers.
