Tiny Tech for Glucose and Blood Pressure Monitoring

by William McCleary | June 17, 2022 | Enabling Tech

Cable TV is inundated with ads for glucose-monitoring devices, showing happy folks leading happy “no finger prick” lives. Offering convenience to people with diabetes, this non-invasive blood-sugar monitoring method is a lucrative niche that’s drawn...

A High-Tech Boot for Diabetic Foot Ulcers [video]

by William McCleary | June 10, 2022 | Enabling Tech

According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), diabetic foot ulcers lead to more hospital admissions than any other diabetes-related complication. About 60% of diabetics will develop conditions that lead to a foot ulcer, which can progress to...

Use Your Ear to Communicate [video]

by Unber Shafiq | June 7, 2022 | Enabling Tech

The human ear can do a lot more than just listen; it can now regulate an individual’s surroundings. A groundbreaking assistive tech that is under development by Dr Nick Gompertz and a team of researchers at the University of Bath has received new funding. It...

New Fuel Cell Design Uses Body’s Sugar to Power Implants

by William McCleary | June 1, 2022 | Enabling Tech

If our body’s cells are powered by the glucose that we get from the food that we eay, why not sugar-powered fuel cells for medical implants and wearables? That’s the question that’s been asked and mostly answered by researchers at MIT and the...

Moisture-Powered Wearables Are on the Way

by William McCleary | May 27, 2022 | Enabling Tech

Researchers in Australia are working on a way to convert moisture both in the air and on the surface of skin into electrical energy that’s stored in a flexible battery. And it looks like the charge that the battery holds will be strong enough to drive wearables,...

Smart Fabric Robot Skin Adds Tactile Awareness [video]

by Bruce Brown | May 26, 2022 | Enabling Tech

Berkeley,-based BeBop Sensors recently introduced a smart fabric sensor technology that can give tactile awareness to robots and prosthetics. BeBop RoboSkin has a sense of touch thanks to taxels: pressure sensors that determine the relative amount of force applied...