DARPA’s Teeny Chain Mail
Extreme nerds will tout this as the arrival of Mithral armor. However, this nano-chain-mail’s real strength will be its changing conductivity at different levels of stretch. From TFA:
“The first layer of fabric could consist of silicon islands with embedded circuits or sensors,” said Liu, who also is affiliated with the university’s Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, the Institute for Genomic Biology, and the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory.
“The resulting fabric could generate electricity, detect movement or damage, or serve some other active role,” Liu said.
And finally you can dress up your toy knights in something functional! More at physorg.
