nanoleq
Vincent Martinez & Luca Hirt
Stretchable Electronics for the Next Generation of Cables
Martinez and Hirt have performed laboratory tests showing that the lifetime of nanoleq cables is up to 100 times longer than a conventional cable. With the help of a machine, they bent and stretched a selection of cables to breaking point. The result: while normal cables became unusable after a few hundred cycles, their newly developed cables still functioned even after thousands of cycles. So, the claim made on nanoleq’s website that its cables are “unbreakable” seems perfectly legitimate.
Even though headphones are primarily important as a visual aid because they encapsulate the problem that nanoleq is attempting to solve, the new the cables are more likely to appeal to industries where the reliability of the connection and the transmission of power are of central importance, such as medical technology, aerospace and robotics. Today, nanoleq focuses in particular on smart textiles.