Reptilian Design of Protective Brace Allows For Full Mobility [video]

by Amantha May | August 26, 2020 | Enabling Tech, General News

Wearable health tech doesn’t always require sensors, software, or electricity, and some leading-edge technology doesn’t resemble futuristic robots so much as sci-fi aliens. For people of a certain age (including the author of this article) an innovative new...

3D Printed Compressible Batteries Empower Flexible Wearables

by Bruce Brown | August 13, 2020 | Enabling Tech

Flexible electronics developed for health tech wearables have several advantages over rigid devices. Great comfort and stealthiness may also boost patient compliance for continuous monitoring when necessary. Powering flexible wearable tech is challenge, however....

Draw Smart Sensors Directly on Skin with Inks

by Bruce Brown | August 11, 2020 | Enabling Tech

Flexible skin patches with biometric sensors have several advantages over devices that you strap on, clip to clothing, or carry. Skin patch sensors conform to the skin surface, are light in weight, comfortable, and easy to remember to wear if you never have to take...

Robot, Heal Thyself! Penn State Made It Happen [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 10, 2020 | Enabling Tech, General News

C3PO and R2D2 notwithstanding, not all robots are hard. We’ve written about soft robots before, usually in devices that physically contact humans or when the robots function as muscle replacements. For example, in 2019, we wrote about work at Purdue on 3D...

Thermal Image Sensing Tracks 3D Hand Positions [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 4, 2020 | Enabling Tech, General News

Researchers at Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin, Madison working together at Cornell’s SciFi Lab developed FingerTrak, a potentially breakthrough wearable that tracks human hand motion in 3D. The SciFi Lab is a new interdisciplinary lab...

Not a Wheelchair [video]

by Amantha May | July 29, 2020 | Enabling Tech, Health

People who rely on a wheelchair have limited access to natural landscapes because wheelchairs don’t have the power or strength to handle off-road conditions. All-terrain wheelchairs can help, but these vehicles have a high price tag; reliable models can cost...