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Podcasts: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Nutromics breakthrough technology combines multiple DNA sensors with microneedles.
Quiz: Sensors/Data Acquisition
MEMS sensors are being integrated into more and more kinds of devices. Although we might not be aware of it, most people rely on them every day. How much do you know about MEMS? Test yourself with this quiz.
Podcasts: Robotics, Automation & Control
Biotricity’s continuous heart rhythm monitor uses advanced technology to deliver unlimited heart data insights.
Blog: Medical
The wearable sensor aims to help patients who suffer from muscle atrophy monitor changes to their health in a more convenient way.
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers have developed a way to detect bacteria, toxins, and dangerous chemicals in the environment using a biopolymer sensor that can be printed like ink on a wide range of materials.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers have developed a wearable ultrasound device — about the size of a postage stamp — that can assess both the structure and function of the human heart.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A new sensor — so cheap and simple to produce that it can be hand-drawn with a pencil onto paper treated with sodium chloride — could clear the way for wearable, self-powered health monitors.
Q&A: IoMT
Professor Patrick Mercier and his team at the University of California, San Diego, have developed an RFID smart tag that uses the signals generated by a smartphone to both read and power it.
Blog: Electronics & Computers
A Caltech-developed new kind of smart bandage aims to treat lingering wounds and help those who have trouble recuperating.
INSIDER: Data Acquisition
The molecules in our bodies are in constant communication. Some of these molecules provide a biochemical fingerprint that could indicate how a wound is healing, whether a cancer...
Products: Photonics/Optics
Last December, Tech Briefs readers were asked to select one product from 2022 to be named Readers’ Choice Product of the Year. See what took home the honors.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A highly sensitive wearable sensor for cardiorespiratory monitoring could potentially be worn continuously by cardiac patients or others who require constant monitoring.
Briefs: Materials
The smart bandage can dispense antibiotic, monitor wound-healing biomarkers, and report important data directly to doctors.
Blog: Medical
Researchers have developed a portable sensor made of simple materials to detect heavy metals in sweat, which is easily sampled.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The next generation of wearable computing technology will be even closer to the wearer than a watch or glasses: It will be affixed to the skin.
Briefs: Medical
Engineers have developed a thin, flexible, stretchy sweat sensor that can show the level of glucose, lactate, sodium, or pH of your sweat — at the press of a finger.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The sensor can be stretched up to 50 percent with almost the same sensing performance.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Device detects pulse rate and blood oxygen saturation in real time.
Briefs: Design
The respirator earned a 100 percent success rate for fit testing.
Quiz: Materials
How much do you know about e-skin? Find out with the quiz below.
INSIDER: Materials
At 200 times stronger than steel, graphene has been hailed as a super material of the future since its discovery in 2004. The ultrathin carbon material is an incredibly strong...
Blog: Wearables
The system aims to add the sense of touch to the metaverse for use in virtual-reality shopping and gaming, and potentially facilitate the work of astronauts and other professions that require the use of thick gloves.
Briefs: Medical
Some wearable devices are already capable of measuring pulse rates or temperatures, but this team’s method would allow the technology to sense biomarkers related to metabolic disorders, like heart disease or diabetes.
Products: Electronics & Computers
See the new products on the market in October 2022, including harsh duty photoelectric sensors, oil temperature sensors, aquatic pumps, and more.
INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
A team of engineers and doctors at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have designed a unique 3D-printed light-sensing medical device that is placed directly on the skin and...
Briefs: Medical
Scientists have taken the first step to creating the next generation of wearable health monitors.
Blog: Medical
A researcher at MU College of Engineering at the University of Missouri is developing a smart mask that could monitor someone’s physiological status based on the nature of the person’s cough.
INSIDER: Semiconductors & ICs
Professor Mohammad Reza Abidian of the Cullen College of Engineering — foresees the future production of micro-scale organic electronics via multiphoton 3D printers.
Blog: Information Technology
The stamp-sized ultrasound sticker technology produces higher-resolution images over a longer duration.
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