Smart Walking

Zhou, R. Berne, B.J., Smart walking A new method for Boltzmann sampling of protein conformations, J. Chem. Phys. 1997,107, 9185... 

I turned away at last, walked up the beach, and crossed the lane. Here was the rectory with a smart front door that Mrs. Shales must have stood at several times a day to receive visitors, the gabled porch where Shales would have left his boots, the garden battered by recent rain but full of beans, cabbages, and fruit trees. I noted that one or two had been lopped or engrafted, a sure sign that Shales had once lived here. And to the left, set well back in an orderly graveyard, was a low church with a slatted wooden tower. 

The pads on the feet and/or legs of insects or animals such as beetles, spiders and geckoes have nanoscale hairs that enable them to attach and detach from different kinds of surfaces, allowing them to walk on them. These provide natural examples of reversible adhesion or smart adhesion. It has been suggested that the adhesion arises from a combination of van der Waals attractive forces and capillary forces (depending on the humidity) [103]. Synthetic surfaces comprising arrays of 400 X 600 nm nanopillars have been produced that mimic the gecko-foot effect with reversible adhesion for at least a few contact cycles [103]. 

Personal tracker Activity monitoring Calorie counter Posture tracking Active walking Strain resistant cloths Sleep sensor Smart glass Smart cloths... 

Optotune AG (2015) Available on www.optotune.com. Accessed 25 May 2015 Pei Q, Pelrine R, Stanford S et al (2002) Multifunctional electroelastomer rolls and their application for biomimetic walking robots. Proc SPIE 4698 246-253 Pei Q, Rosenthal M, Stanford S et al (2004) Multiple-degrees-of-ifeedom electroelastomer roll actuators. Smart Mater Struct 13(5) N86-N92... 

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