by Bruce Brown | June 23, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Not all wearables wrap around a wrist, or even are attached anywhere to the outside of your body. In 2016 Alfred Poor wrote on this site about researchers at Arizona State University that created an edible supercapacitor that could deliver energy to a swallowed device...
by Bruce Brown | June 18, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Cambridge-based Shimmer Research announced that the Open Wearables Initiative (OWEAR) has launched a rich open-source software and validated dataset resource for developers working on wearable sensors and connected health technologies. Clinical researchers who use the...
by Bruce Brown | June 15, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Energy-harvesting electronic surgical implants answer one of the most important questions in medical technology development: how will the device get power? Possibilities for product design and placement in the body expand significantly if you don’t have to allow...
by Bruce Brown | June 8, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Most health and medical tech devices rely on sensors. Advances in sensor technologies can significantly increase the value of biometric data by increasing sensitivity and accuracy. Any sensor improvement is a good thing, but the University of Sussex Materials Physics...
by Bruce Brown | June 2, 2020 | Enabling Tech
After mandatory closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many parts of the U.S. are starting to reopen. Many questions about the virus still remain, however, and we may be dealing with its effects for a long time. There’s wide acknowledgment that life will not be...
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by Bruce Brown | May 27, 2020 | Enabling Tech
The carpenter’s adage “Measure three times, cut once” may not apply with devices made from a new composite material developed at Carnegie Mellon University. We’ve written about self-healing properties before, such as the work at the Cockrell...
