Flexible circuits and wearables seem to be all the rage these days. We’ve got conductive paint, glue, and even thread. So how about conductive silicone? Well, as it turns out — it’s not that hard to ...

In an age where food can be assembled by a printer and bacteria can be engineered to produce gold, surely talking billboards cannot be that far away. A team of students from London’s Royal College of ...

Conductive ink or paint is lots of fun. It opens up tons of possibilities for flexible and unique circuits — unfortunately, it’s pretty expensive. [Brian McEvoy] shows us how to make your own for ...

Bare Conductive’s primary product–recently highlighted by Mashable, among other outlets–is a thick, gooey black paint that includes carbon. The carbon in the mixture means that, when you apply the ...

London-based Bare Conductive makes paint that conducts electricity. It's called electric paint and it can be used on a variety of surfaces including paper, plastic, wood, cardboard, or glass. Electric ...

Linear thinking yields linear results, but that does not necessarily ensure success. True innovation demands nonlinear thinking, which, more often than not, emerges from goal-oriented play and ...

This article was taken from the January 2013 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands ...