More and more, sensors and other electronic gadgets are riddling the world—even our clothing and bodies. People developing this technology find themselves in need of circuitry that can conform to the changeable shapes of fabrics, tissues, and other soft materials (SN: 8/31/02, p. 133: Available to subscribers at Electronics in the Round: Mixing plastic and silicon yields form-fitting circuitry).
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