Sense Glucose Earring for managing diabetes
A product design graduate has developed a discreet item of wearable technology that monitors blood sugar levels and delivers feedback in real-time.
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Wearable shines light on benefits of outdoor lighting
A device could help scientists better understand the health benefits of outdoor lighting and lead to wearables that could nudge users to get more outdoor time.
Micro-supercapacitors to self-power wearables
A stretchable system that can harvest energy from human breathing and motion for use in wearable health-monitoring devices may be possible.
Smartwatch can detect early signs of illness
Researchers have developed a smartwatch app designed to alert users when their bodies show signs of fighting an infection, such as elevated heart rate.
Wearable may signal you're developing COVID-19
A smart ring that generates continuous temperature data may foreshadow COVID-19, even in cases when infection is not suspected.
The role of mhealth in monitoring Covid-19 patients
Researchers have examined how mobile technologies have been used in monitoring and mitigating the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Wearables use tiny fibers to track vitals
A shirt that monitors your blood pressure or a pair of socks that can keep track of your cholesterol levels might be just a few years away from becoming reality.
E-skin has a strong future stretching ahead
A material that mimics human skin in strength, stretchability and sensitivity could be used to collect biological data in real time.
A pressure sensor at your fingertips
An ultrathin pressure sensor for the skin measures how fingers interact with objects to produce useful data for medical applications.
Sensor for smart textiles survives hammers
An ultra-sensitive, resilient strain sensor that can be embedded in textiles and soft robotic systems survived being tested by a washing machine and a car.
Exoskeletons reduces strain in health care
For a study, nurses wore exoskeleton vests to discover how the new technology would suit the special requirements of patient care.
Graphene – the versatile wonder material
Graphene has a vast variety of practical applications in the creation of new materials. But what exactly is graphene and what makes it so special?
E-skin: recyclable alternative to wearables?
A wearable electronic device that’s 'really wearable” - a stretchy and fully-recyclable circuit board - can heal itself, much like real skin.
Tiny microsupercapacitor for wearable devices
A tiny microsupercapacitor (MSC) that is as small as the width of a person's fingerprint and can be integrated directly with an electronic chip has been developed.
Quantum-dot transistors create a printable electronics
Researchers have created fundamental electronic building blocks out of tiny structures known as quantum dots and used them to assemble functional logic circuits.
Step closer to high-performing wearable
The University of Surrey has unveiled a device with unique functionality that could signal the dawn of a new design philosophy for electronics, including next-generation wearables and eco-disposable sensors.
Wearable sensor helps ALS patients communicate
Researchers have designed a skin-like device that can measure small facial movements in patients who have lost the ability to speak.
Printed electronics could charge out of thin air
Researchers have developed a new approach to printed electronics which allows ultra-low power electronic devices that could recharge from ambient light or radiofrequency noise.
Powering wearable sensors through human motion
Researchers have harvested kinetic energy that is produced by a person as they move around.
Quantum dots encapsulated in salt
Researchers have developed the world's first inkjet technique for using saltwater to encapsulate Quantum dots materials.
Wearable pressure-sensitive devices
Scientists have devised solutions to the problems presented in constructing wearable pressure-sensitive sensors.
E-textiles: Dyeing process gives electronic properties
Scientists have shown how smart textiles can be produced in a comparatively easy way, thus opening up new use cases.
Wearable sensors printed on skin without heat
Researchers have printed wearable sensors directly on human skin without the use of heat.
3D printed transparent fibers can sense breath
Researchers used 3D printing techniques to make electronic fibres, each 100 times thinner than a human hair, creating sensors beyond the capabilities of conventional film-based devices.
Wearable sensor for patients with inflammatory bowel disease
Researchers have designed a wearable device that monitors sweat for biomarkers that could signal flare-ups of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Biosensors open up paths to treatments
Self-powered biosensors that could one day lead to wearable devices that do not need to be recharged, or even sensors that are powered by the very bodily process they are designed to monitor.
Parylene photonics enable optical biointerfaces
Scientists have invented an optical platform that will likely become the new standard in optical biointerfaces.
Wearable technologies to make rehab more precise
New study explores using wearable technologies to develop precision rehab interventions in brain injury survivors.
Patches detect when a viral disease is getting worse
Xsensio has been awarded CHF 1.8 million in EU funding to adapt its Lab-on-Skin sensing patches so that they can detect when a viral illness like the flu or COVID-19 is about to get worse.
