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Even it looks pretty cool, they're unlikely to get adoption because it's not clear to their target market what their benefit is. One way to solve this is to act
by personjerry 11y ago
Even it looks pretty cool, they're unlikely to get adoption because it's not clear to their target market what their benefit is. One way to solve this is to actually take one of the applications and do it themselves and drive interest in the technology.
- azinman2 11y agoI disagree. They show spring-type applications, things precisely going back to alignment, etc. Industrial engineers should be able to take these higher-level concepts and put them in their toolchest
- Already__Taken 11y agoIf they can vary the spring distance by current and not design they could make for interesting valve replacement in ICEs.
- Natanael_L 11y agoWith a mix of permamagnetic polymagnets, electropermanent magnet arrays plus classical electromagnets, you could definitely do that. You could have certain static guiding patterns, switchable EPM arrays for creating modifiable sub-patterns (and strengths) within the static ones, and the electromagnets for finely adjusting strengths and for pulling objects around. For one, EPM:s could be used for programmable attachment/removal to a magnetic guiding system by either attracting an object with the polymagnet spring mechanism and then letting it into a magnetic rail, or by pushing it off by mirroring its magnetic field.
- URSpider94 11y agoI think that's a bad idea. Many hardware technology start-ups go down the path of forward-integrating in order to drive adoption. To do this, they end up investing massive amounts in developing the end product, instead of on the specific feature.