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5 Ws: Materials
Users can take paper sheets from a notebook and turn them into a music player interface or make food packaging interactive.
5 Ws: Manufacturing & Prototyping
Would you take a walk in biodegradable flip-flops?
5 Ws: Wearables
People who use sign language could communicate directly with non-signers, without needing someone else to translate for them.
5 Ws: Manufacturing & Prototyping
MIT researchers are developing a shoe coating that provides a stronger grip on ice and other slippery surfaces.
5 Ws: Materials
In the operating room, you can produce bioresorbable metal implants, such as screws for bone fractures.
5 Ws: Materials
Bacterial pathogens can live on surfaces for days. What if frequently touched surfaces, such as doorknobs, could instantly kill them off?
5 Ws: Wearables
A smart jumpsuit accurately measures the spontaneous and voluntary movement of infants
5 Ws: Mechanical & Fluid Systems
The handheld 3D skin printer can deposit sheets of skin to cover large burn wounds
5 Ws: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Learn about the Pedestrian Audio Wearable System (PAWS), a low-cost, headset-based, wearable platform.
5 Ws: Materials
With the new microlattice pads, players will have greater protection from both single hits and a series of impacts.
5 Ws: Test & Measurement
A touch-based display mimics the geometry of 3D objects designed on a computer.
5 Ws: Sensors/Data Acquisition
The biometric tool uses modified wireless earbuds to authenticate smartphone users
5 Ws: Wearables
A new wearable could make heart health monitoring easier and more accurate than existing electrocardiograph machines.
5 Ws: Energy
Who
Anyone using standard, coated paper in conventional printers.
5 Ws: Medical
Who
Ear infections are the most common reason that parents bring their children to a pediatrician, according to the National Institutes of Health.
5 Ws: Internet of Things
Who
The patch — which serves as a personal thermostat — provides personalized cooling and heating at home, work, or on the go by cooling or warming the user's skin to a comfortable temperature...
5 Ws: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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Anyone who uses products made of plastic. The new recyclable plastic could be a good alternative to many nonrecyclable plastics in use today.
5 Ws: Manufacturing & Prototyping
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Millions of people worldwide with type 1 diabetes.
5 Ws: Defense
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Manufacturers across medical, space, aviation, military, and automotive industries could use the technology to build complex machines that integrate with surfaces to be very compact, but can deploy to do...
5 Ws: Medical
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Millions of people who rely on pacemakers, defibrillators, and other livesaving implantable devices powered by batteries that need to be replaced every five to 10 years.
5 Ws: Energy
Who
Piezoelectric materials are used in everything from cellphones and wearables, to robotics, energy harvesting, and tactile sensors.
5 Ws: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Who
The device can optimize treatment of neonatal jaundice, skin diseases, and seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and reduce risk of sunburn and skin cancer.
5 Ws: Imaging
Who
Individuals needing or wanting to examine lead content in their drinking water on-demand and in virtually any environmental setting.
5 Ws: Communications
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Manufacturers and users of wearables, functional fabrics, mobile devices, wireless routers, and Internet of Things devices.
5 Ws: Transportation
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The Safe Impact Resistant Electrolyte (SAFIRE) fire-resistant battery can be used in consumer electronics such as cellphones, in drones and cars, and in soldiers’ packs.
5 Ws: Electronics & Computers
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Billions of objects ranging from smartphones and buildings, to machine parts and medical devices, to furniture and office supplies — any object that has a need to communicate with or sense other objects.
5 Ws: Test & Measurement
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First responders, soldiers, and scientists in the field.
5 Ws: Sensors/Data Acquisition
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PHADE could be used by government agencies to enhance public safety; for example, the government can deploy cameras in high-crime or high-accident areas, and warn specific users about potential threats....
5 Ws: Data Acquisition
Who
Patients in substance abuse treatment programs.
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