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Quantum speed limit (QSL) is the study of fundamental limits on the evolution time of quantum systems. For instance, under the action of a time-independent Hamiltonian, the evolution time between an initial and a final quantum state obeys various mutually complementary lower bounds. They include the Mandelstam-Tamm, Margolus-Levitin, Luo-Zhang, dual ML and Lee-Chau bounds. Here we show that the Mandelstam-Tamm bound can be obtained by optimizing the Lee-Chau bound over a certain parameter. More importantly, we report a QSL that includes all the above bounds as special cases before optimizing over the physically meaningless reference energy level of a quantum system. This unifying bound depends on a certain parameter $p$. For any fixed $p$, we find all pairs of time-independent Hamiltonian and initial pure quantum state that saturate this unifying bound. More importantly, these pairs allow us to compute this bound accurately and efficiently using an oracle that returns certain $p$th moments related to the absolute value of energy of the quantum state. Moreover, this oracle can be simulated by a computationally efficient and accurate algorithm for finite-dimensional quantum systems as well as for certain infinite-dimensional quantum states with bounded and continuous energy spectra. This makes our computational method feasible in a lot of practical situations. We compare the performance of this bound for the case of a fixed $p$ as well as the case of optimizing over $p$ with existing QSLs. We find that if the dimension of the underlying Hilbert space is $\lesssim 2000$, our unifying bound optimized over $p$ can be computed accurately in a few minutes using Mathematica code with just-in-time compilation in a typical desktop. Besides, this optimized unifying QSL is at least as good as all the existing ones combined and can occasionally be a few percent to a few times better., Comment: revised, 22 pages, 3 figures, to appear in J.Phys.A

Existing flexible electronics are planar, nonbreathable, and easily damaged. In this work, authors introduce a new paradigm of free-form three-dimensional integrated circuits assembled on a single textile thread for ultimate flexibility. Transistors are assembled as daisy chain on a thread and utilize deep eutectic solvent gels, or eutectogels as nonvolatile, breathable, and repairable dielectric for gating organic electrochemical transistor. The eutectogels provide stable transistor performance without the need for encapsulation, are air permeable to the skin, and make the Organic Eutectogel Gated Electrochemical Transistor (OEGET) a promising candidate for wearable electronics. Complex analog integrated circuits, such as single stage and multi-stage amplifiers can be realized on a single thread which can bend out of the plane of stretching for true three-dimensional flexibility. An all-thread based wearable that uses a thread-based strain sensor and thread-based integrated circuit for eye motion and respiration monitoring is also presented.