Textiles to Pull Electricity from Thin Air

Textiles to Pull Electricity from Thin Air

by | October 22, 2014 | Enabling Tech

The concept of a body network is an intriguing one. Autonomous sensors communicate wirelessly with each other and a central controller, collecting and relaying data on a variety of health and fitness metrics, watching for markers that might indicate injury or disease,...
“No-Power” Devices Driven by WiFi [video]

“No-Power” Devices Driven by WiFi [video]

by | October 2, 2014 | Enabling Tech

The future of wearable Health Tech is all about data: collecting it, distributing it, analyzing it, and using it to drive better choices about our personal activities and treatment of health conditions including heart disease, diabetes, and more. One of the big...
Flexible Fabric Conducts Electricity [video]

Flexible Fabric Conducts Electricity [video]

by | September 29, 2014 | Enabling Tech

Scientists from the Institute of Textiles and Clothing at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in China have developed a new way to create flexible and stretchable devices. As published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society,  they have developed computerized...
Radio-on-a-Chip to Create Smart Networks [video]

Radio-on-a-Chip to Create Smart Networks [video]

by | September 16, 2014 | Enabling Tech

 Credit: Amin Arbabian When I was in grade school, my parents bought me a transistor radio. It was about the size of a dictionary, but it ran on batteries and I could put it under my pillow and listen to the Baltimore Orioles’ games as I fell asleep. It was so...