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This Smart Bed Uses AI Sensors and Strings to Adjust to Your Sleeping Needs

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I remember when Hyper-Elastic Polymer was the strangest thing you could find in a mattress. Thanks to its woven strings, the Anssil Sleepinbody-Incline Smart Mattress i4 earned a Digital Health Innovation Award at CES 2024. It’s also the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen in a mattress. This smart mattress has an inner web of 14 million … Read more

School of Rock: The Physics of Waves on Guitar Strings

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The rubber band example does indeed have two nodes—they are at the ends of the rubber band where your fingers hold it. We only have half a wavelength in the standing wave, but there is indeed a relationship between the length of the rubber band and the size of the wavelength. Guitar Strings It’s time … Read more