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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Soft pressure sensors have received significant research attention in a variety of fields including soft robotics, electronic skin, and wearable electronics. Researchers have developed a highly sensitive...
Briefs: Nanotechnology
Graphene — hexagonally arranged carbon atoms in a single layer with superior pliability and high conductivity — could impact the development of future motion detection, tactile sensing,...
Briefs: Materials
Elastic polymers, known as elastomers, can be stretched and released repeatedly and are used in applications such as gloves and heart valves, where they need to last a long time without tearing. But...
Special Reports: Robotics, Automation & Control
RF & Microwave Electronics - May 2022
In this compendium of recent articles from the editors of Aerospace & Defense Technology and Tech Briefs, read about how advances in RF electronics are enabling new applications in avionics systems,...Question of the Week: Electronics & Computers
Would You Wear a Microgrid?
Our April issue of Tech Briefs highlighted a wearable microgrid that powers electronics by harvesting energy from the wearer’s body. The wearable (shown here) has three components: sweat-powered biofuel cells, motion-powered devices called triboelectric generators, and energy-storing supercapacitors. All parts are...
Videos: Wearables
A variety of electronics and sensors are being integrated into today’s materials to spot a variety of parameters: from damage to a product design to stress on your heart.
INSIDER: Electronics & Computers
Engineers at UC Berkeley have developed a new technique for making sensors for wearable technology that enables medical researchers to prototype-test new designs much faster and at a...
Special Reports: Design
Medical Robotics - April 2022
Novel biosensors set to revolutionize brain-controlled robotics...micro-robots propelled by air bubbles...a smart artificial hand...major advances in exoskeleton technology. These are just a few of the medical...Briefs: Wearables
The device ultimately should be able to provide accurate signals from a person who is walking, running, or climbing stairs.
Briefs: Materials
Applications include detection of chemical and biological agents as well as dangerous gases from vehicle emissions.
Briefs: Communications
The mobile, wearable device could allow babies to leave the hospital and be monitored from home.
Briefs: Wearables
These smart lenses can be used to diagnose and treat diabetes.
Briefs: Wearables
The wearable device offers options for treating antibiotic-resistant infections and wounds.
Briefs: Energy
A hybrid method enables 3D printing of self-powered wearable devices.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Artificial skin reacts to pain just like real skin, paving the way to better prosthetics, robotics, and noninvasive alternatives to skin grafts.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
The flexible, washable microgrid uses the human body to sustainably power small electronics.
Blog: Medical
The future of computing is in fabrics, says Prof, Yoel Fink from MIT.
Podcasts: Robotics, Automation & Control
Marcus Gerhardt and his company at Blackrock Neurotech are creating a brain-computer interface that restores senses for paralyzed patients.
5 Ws: Medical
A newly designed wearable magnetic metamaterial could help make MRI scans crisper, faster, and cheaper.
Briefs: Wearables
The smartphone-based device could reduce the pressure on testing laboratories during a pandemic.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The tool diagnoses a stroke based on abnormalities in a person’s speech and facial movements.
Briefs: Semiconductors & ICs
The test uses a smartphone microscope and could deliver results in about 10 minutes.
Briefs: Wearables
The mobile phone app enables regular monitoring of glucose levels in people with diabetes.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
These textiles could help performers and athletes train their breathing and potentially help patients recovering from post-surgery breathing changes.
Articles: Wearables
A smart roof coating, a wearable RFID sensor tag, and a 3D-printed OLED display.
Briefs: Medical
The patch enables unobtrusive drug delivery through the skin for the management of skin cancers.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A study seeks to understand how different parts of the brain communicate with other.
Briefs: Energy
Researchers successfully demonstrated the use of the human body as a medium for transmitting and harvesting energy to power wearables.
Briefs: Medical
3D bioprinting using bioink from engineered stem cells enables treatment of myocardial infarction and other cardiovascular diseases.
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INSIDER: Photonics/Optics
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Webcasts
Webinars: Electronics & Computers
Why Your Motor Behaves Badly: See BLDC Control Signals, Power, and EMI in One...
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