{"id":8697,"date":"2015-05-08T16:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midastouch.goldgenie.com\/?p=8697"},"modified":"2015-05-08T16:00:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T15:00:57","slug":"the-future-is-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/the-future-is-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future is Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8698\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Gold-Robot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8698\" class=\"wp-image-8698 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Gold-Robot.jpg\" alt=\"Gold-Robot\" width=\"508\" height=\"906\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8698\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retro Gold Robot, Image Source: http:\/\/netlife.network.com.tr\/retro-robotlarim-bana-gizli-guc-veriyor\/<\/p><\/div>\n<p>At Goldgenie, we have always taken a versatile approach to Gold and believe it can and should be used everywhere! \u00a0Therefore, we are particularly impressed with scientists&#8217; new discovery\u2026 \u00a0A breakthrough has been made in robotic muscle engineering using onion skin which has been coated with gold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story__intro\">The structure of the vegetable&#8217;s skin allows it to\u00a0stretch and flex like a real human muscle and scientists have discovered that by painting it in Gold they can cause it to move! \u00a0The conductive properties of Gold make it receptive to electrical currents and by applying different different voltages of electricity to the top and bottom, the gold-covered onion can expand and contract just like a real muscle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story__intro\">The team behind the discovery at National Taiwan University are still working on achieving the same technique with lower voltages. \u00a0If they can achieve this and make the onion skin more durable and water-resistant, this will be a huge breakthrough in medical engineering and a viable option for those who need muscle replacement.<\/p>\n<p>While the value of gold is universally acknowledged, we must never underestimate the value of common vegetables in our kitchen!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Onions.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8699\" src=\"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Onions.jpg\" alt=\"Onions\" width=\"254\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Goldgenie, we have always taken a versatile approach to Gold and believe it can and should be used everywhere!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[579,1130,1192,1337,1390],"class_list":["post-8697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gold-news","tag-gold","tag-medical-engineering","tag-new-technology","tag-robots","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goldgenie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}