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Millennium Schools Project - Smart Technologies
 
 

For the first time we are now able to offer the actual thin film used in the creation of packaging and other consumer products. The spectacular optical effects, including illusions of movement and depth, offer limitless applications in design and technology.
Kettles that change colour and signs that glow-in-the-dark are two recent examples of products becoming smarter as a result of new materials. Colour-changing thermochromic pigments are now routinely made as inks for paper and fabrics - and incorporated into injection moulded plastics.
The pack contains: a sample of Polymorph low temperature polymer a length of smartwire (shape memory alloy) a sheet of thermochromic film (liquid crystal technology) a sample of lenticular sheet a sample IQ controller a brief guide and suggestions for experiments
 



Smart Technologies
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'Smart wire' is a shape memory alloy (SMA) that changes its length with a useful pulling force when a small current is passed through it.
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