[Steven’s] at it again with another cool science experiment that isn’t too difficult to do. This time he’s made himself a Nitinol wire inchworm, which actually moves across the table when you apply a ...

SPENCER, Ind.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 17, 2006--Cook Urological, a division of Cook, the world's largest private medical device company, today announced the availability of the Flexor(R) DL (Dual Lumen ...

Generally, when we’re looking to build something that moves we reach for motors, servos, or steppers — which ultimately are all just variations on the same concept. But there are other methods of ...

Researchers at University Saarland in Germany have made use of a nitinol, to power a prosthetic hand in an entirely new way. Naval Ordnance Laboratory in the 1950’s developed nitinol, an alloy of ...

A German research team has prototyped an extraordinary heating/cooling system that stresses and unloads nickel-titanium "muscle wires" to create heated and cooled air at twice the efficiency of a heat ...