Acknowledgements:

Special thanks to all the parents and our mentor, along with Finn Kryskalla and William Roberts for their support.

We also would like to thank Toshiba and the National Science Teachers Association for creating ExploraVision and giving kids an opportunity to be engineers.

Books/Journal:

• Future Tech: from Personal Robots to Motorized Monocycles, Charles Piddock, Washington, D.C. National Geographic, 2009.
• How Robots Work, Hyland, Tony, Smart Apple Media,  2008.
• http://www.technologyreview.com  "making Stretchable Electronics." September/October 2012.

Cool Sites to Explore:

• Projects and activities using nitinol wire: http://www.mrsec.psu.edu/education/nano-activities/nitinol/ 
• Watch this video about a balancing robot:
  http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_fankhauser_meet_rezero_the_
  dancing_ballbot.html
•  Learn how your muscles work:
  http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/ 

Web Sites References:

• http://phys.org/news/2012-02-power-felt-body-electricity.html 
• http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Equilibrioception
• http://www.bodyscan.human.cornell.edu/scene0037.html
• http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/exoskeleton-0919.html
• http://www.technologyreview.com
• http://fiberiotech.com/about/nanofibers/
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/support/elderly/falls_elderly.shtml
• https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/balance/pages/balance_disorders.aspx
• http://razorrobotics.com/robots/
• http://articles.fibre2fashion.com/
• http://www.emory.edu/BUSINESS/readings/SmartTextiles.pdf
• http://wearable.mlog.taik.fi/files/2011/11/ramyah_thesisCopy.pdf
• http://www.hep.uiuc.edu/home/g-gollin/dance/dance_physics.html
• http://www.stopdizziness.com/resources_balance.asp
• http://wearable.mlog.taik.fi/files/2011/11/ramyah_thesisCopy.pdf
• http://www.dimensionengineering.com/info/accelerometers
• http://www.virtualmedicalcentre.com/anatomy/ear/29
• http://home2.btconnect.com/alanmilleroptom/Eyecare.html
• http://www.nature.com/nrn/journal/v3/n10/fig_tab/nrn939_F2.html
• http://www.nature.com/nrn/journal/v3/n10/fig_tab/nrn939_F2.html