A Smart Prosthetic Just Got Smarter [video]

by William McCleary | August 29, 2022 | Enabling Tech

What do you get when you combine a well-known Australian swimmer and a British bionics company? It’s not a joke, but rather a combination that gives us great patient advocacy for a remarkable prosthetic: the COVVI Hand. Jessica Smith, a Paralympic swimmer and...

Gas Mask Uses Breathing to Power Its Sensors

by William McCleary | August 26, 2022 | Enabling Tech

It may seem like something straight out of science fiction — akin to the famed Dune suits that rely on body moisture — but breath-powered gas masks are a reality today. Researchers at Korea’s Chung-Ang University have created just such a device that can power...

Flexible Chip Puts a Computer on Your Skin

by Bruce Brown | August 23, 2022 | Enabling Tech

Researchers at The University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) are working on flexible, stretchy semiconductors for AI applications with human health wearables. Potential benefits of flexible electronic components for wearables include...

Graphene Foam Adds Sense of Touch to Smart Prosthetics

by William McCleary | August 15, 2022 | Enabling Tech

The ability of robotic limbs and prosthetics to mimic human touch just got a considerable boost through a robotic sensors project that’s led in part by researchers at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS). The research team, which includes members from...

A New Smart Contact Lens Measures Glucose Levels From Tears

by William McCleary | August 12, 2022 | Enabling Tech

If you believe the old proverb, eyes may be the window to the soul, but one’s peepers could also offer a glimpse of something more practical: blood sugar levels. And it may be possible with smart contact lenses. Researchers at Stanford University and South...

A COVID-Killing Face Mask is (Almost) Here

by William McCleary | August 10, 2022 | Enabling Tech

For some time now, most of us have been relying on face masks to filter out COVID-19. But what if there were masks that did something better, such as deactivating the virus? That’s the idea behind an innovative new antiviral face mask from researchers at the...