Smart materials is an exciting new area of materials science that is advancing at a rapid pace. A smart or intelligent system uses the functional properties of advanced materials to achieve high performance that can react to an external stimuli or change in environment. In this short newsletter, Baverstam takes a look at a variety of smart material such as piezoelectric materials, shape-memory alloys, magnetostrictive materials, magnetorheological fluids and smart polymers and presents exciting new developments taking place in recent years in smart materials.