{"id":4383,"date":"2015-03-09T11:27:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T15:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/ims\/?p=4383"},"modified":"2026-05-06T13:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:28:13","slug":"tech-corner-augmented-power-cables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/2015\/tech-corner-augmented-power-cables\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Corner:  Augmented Power Cables"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Tech Corner:  Augmented Power Cables\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Could there be a time when a tangled mess of power cables is actually a welcomed and useful sight? A group from MIT are looking at ways to incorporate sensors and microcontrollers into power cables that could potentially allow you to pinch, stretch and bend them to adjust their power flow. Still in a prototype phase, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inavateonthenet.net\/article\/90971\/Augmented-cables-let-you-cut-off-power-with-a-pinch.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">InAVate On The Net<\/a> shows how such technology could be used to control several everyday electronic devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could there be a time when a tangled mess of power cables is actually a welcomed and useful sight? A group from MIT are looking at ways to incorporate sensors and microcontrollers into power cables that could potentially allow you to pinch, stretch and bend them to adjust their power flow. Still in a prototype [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"null"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}