And then we embed elastic.

Other people are not as elastic.

Robotic Air Powered Hand with Elastic Ligaments.

Paola Antonelli previews Design and the Elastic Mind

We store potential energy to the elastic skin to make it move.

So that becomes a very powerful force for them to make their brand more elastic.

So the idea is, all night long the elastic skin of the third lung will slowly inflate itself, including air and molecules, for sure.

And we set this up as a live globe in the Museum of Modern Art in New York for the Design the Elastic Mind exhibition.

So, you won't see all the really cool stuff that's in this series elastic set of 14 actuators, each one which has its own capability to sense temperature and pressure.

And what I'm going to do today is I'm going to give you a preview of the next exhibition that I'm working on, which is called Design and the Elastic Mind.

Some of the minds in this audience are super elastic, others are a little slower, others have a few stretch marks, but nonetheless this is a quite exceptional audience from that viewpoint.

MOMA design curator Paola Antonelli previews the groundbreaking show a href http www.moma.org exhibitions 2008 elasticmind Design and the Elastic Mind a full of products and designs that reflect the way we think now.

And this exhibition is about the work of designers that help us be more elastic, and also of designers that really work on this elasticity as an opportunity. And one last thing is that it's not only designers, but it's also scientists.

MONTREAL Many of us are terrified by the prospect of having a debilitating stroke or a fatal heart attack. Few of us, however, respond as emotionally to the threat of chronic disease, a vague and elastic term that is mainly useful for organizing health services.

In a serious downturn, a country may wish to pursue a traditional Keynesian policy through large scale, deficit financed fiscal stimulus. Although the Stability and Growth Pact may be elastic enough to permit some deficit stimulus, a country may feel constrained from acting as aggressively as it wants.

Under the bold leadership of Mario Draghi, the ECB has committed to provide as much time as possible for most governments to get their acts together. And it has done so by relying on innovative measures that substitute its elastic balance sheet for those of over extended governments, gun shy private investors, and fleeing bank depositors.