Soft robotics, energy harvesting, large-deformation sensing and actuation, are just some of the applications that can be enabled by soft dielectrics that demonstrate substantive electromechanical coupling. Imagine now also a material that will produce electricity and deform substantively via a contactless, wireless magnetic signal. Unfortunately, truly soft, naturally occurring piezoelectric or magnetoelectric materials essentially do not exist. In this presentation, I will illustrate how mechanics and the concept of electrets i.e. materials with immobile embedded charges and dipoles, may be used for the design of soft piezoelectric, magnetoelectric, and electrocaloric materials. I will also briefly discuss the ramifications our results to explain biophysical phenomena such as the infrared vision of snakes or the ability of some animals to detect magnetic fields.