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Question of the Week: Electronics & Computers
Will ‘Sweat Power’ Make Wearables Mainstream?
Engineers at the University of California San Diego developed a thin, flexible strip that can be worn on a fingertip and generate small amounts of electricity when a person’s finger sweats or presses on it. (Watch the demo on Tech Briefs TV.)
Briefs: Medical
The app detects fluid behind the eardrum using a piece of paper and a smartphone’s microphone and speaker.
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Over the last 75 years, sensors have played an increasingly significant part in the advancement of medicine.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The wearable prototype can stream, in real time, an identifying signature based on the electrical activity of a person's heart.
Briefs: Medical
This technology could be a low-cost, in-home alternative to blood draws and clinic-based screening tools.
Podcasts: Wearables
In this episode of our Here's an Idea podcast, we speak to engineers who are building a variety of wearables. And some sensors blend in more than others.
INSIDER: Wearables
Researchers at CU Boulder have developed a new, low-cost, wearable device that transforms the human body into a biological battery. The device is stretchy enough that you can wear it like a...
Briefs: Wearables
The next generation of waterproof smart fabrics can be laser-printed and made in minutes.
NASA Spinoff: Aerospace
With a technique first used at NASA, researchers are making glasses that can improve your concentration.
5 Ws: Wearables
The smartwatch app identifies sounds that a user is interested in and sends a friendly buzz and information about the sound.
INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Field Effect Transistors (FET) are the core building blocks of modern electronics such as integrated circuits, computer CPUs, and display backplanes. Organic...
Articles: Lighting
A smartwatch that tracks medication levels, a flexible LED, and NASA's "Micro-Organ" device platform.
Briefs: Data Acquisition
The technology, which could be added to smart watches, could detect the onset of Parkinson’s disease or help with stroke rehabilitation.
Briefs: Robotics, Automation & Control
Fully integrated flexible electronics made of magnetic sensors and organic circuits open the path towards the development of electronic skin.
INSIDER: Wearables
The proliferation and miniaturization of electronics in devices, wearables, medical implants, and other applications has...
INSIDER: Robotics, Automation & Control
Researchers at the University of Houston report that they have designed and produced a smart electronic skin and a medical robotic hand capable of assessing vital diagnostic data...
5 Ws: Wearables
People who use sign language could communicate directly with non-signers, without needing someone else to translate for them.
Briefs: Wearables
The material was designed specifically for biomedical or wearable technologies, since sweat and volatile organic compounds evaporate away from the skin.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
Bioactive inks printed on wearable textiles can map conditions over the entire surface of the body.
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Smart devices measure electrical signals from the skin, indicating stress levels and emotions.
Briefs: Electronics & Computers
In place of flat breadboards, 3D-printed CurveBoards enable easier testing of circuit design on electronics products.
Special Reports: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Medical Sensors & Wearables - August 2020
The wearable medical device market is expected to reach nearly $20 billion by 2025, driven by advances in sensor technology. This compendium of recent articles from the editors of Medical Design Briefs...Application Briefs: Communications
Learn abut Bosch Sensortec's “Light Drive” system.
Technology Leaders: Energy
Bio-interfacing and biodegradable flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) devices can help tackle some of the world’s great challenges including environmental degradation and food scarcity.
5 Ws: Sensors/Data Acquisition
A smart jumpsuit accurately measures the spontaneous and voluntary movement of infants
Briefs: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Bandages with integrated pH and temperature sensors, and electronically triggered drug release, improve healing.
INSIDER: Wearables
A new manufacturing process could produce flexible electronics for things like virtual reality-enabled contact lenses, solar-powered skins that mold to the contours of your car, and...
INSIDER: Nanotechnology
Wearable tech and electronic cloth may be the way of the future, but to get there the wiring needs to be strong, flexible, and efficient.
INSIDER: Energy
New research by engineers at MIT and elsewhere could lead to batteries that can pack more power per pound and last longer, based on the long-sought goal of using pure lithium metal as...
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