Bendier - Stretchy Circuit Boards From: Popular Science - 02/2009 - page 30 Electronic circuits are usually built on brittle semicondictors or glass, but the next generation will be s flexible as a rubber band. Scientists at the University of Illinois printed lines of silicon 1/500 as thick as the human hair onto a flexible sheet of plastic that can be stretched or compressed like an accordion. Within five year, the elastic circuit board could be used to make electrodes that would be placed directly on the brain to study epilepsy of sensor-lined gloves that would supply doctors with better tactile feedback during surgery. Read the entire story at: Let's Do the Twist - Scientists build stretchy circuits http://www.popsci.com/node/30949 Links: Yonggang Huang http://www.civil.northwestern.edu/people/huang.html Yonggang Huang describes the new retina-like camera sensor and flexible photosensitive pixels http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_videos.jsp?cntn_id=112012&media_id=62718&org=NSF John Rogers describes the new camera he helped develop that is based on the eye's structure http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_videos.jsp?cntn_id=112012&media_id=62717&org=NSF New Technology Could Lead to Camera Based on Human Eye http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2008/08/humaneyecamera.html Camera Lens Works Like an Eye http://dsc.discovery.com/technology/im/eye-camera-rogers.html