Wireless AR/VR Haptic Glove Feels Texture

by Bruce Brown | September 19, 2019 | Enabling Tech

Spending on virtual and augmented reality hardware, systems, and applications will exceed $20 billion during 2019, according to a 2018 IDC report. Games and consumer video viewing continue as the AR/VR application front runners, but industrial, commercial,...

Biodegradable Implant Releases Painkiller on Demand

by Bruce Brown | September 18, 2019 | Enabling Tech

The current opioid abuse epidemic has created strong interest in pain management solutions that do not require drugs. The fact remains that some situations still may be best addressed using medications. Researchers at Switzerland’s Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale...

Boston Biotech Lab to Award Startup Space

by Bruce Brown | September 11, 2019 | Enabling Tech

Global healthcare company Novo Nordisk wants to give three biotech startups a Golden Ticket, one each year for three years. The Golden Ticket is one year of free access to a scientist and a bench for research at LabCentral, a state-of-the-art biotech innovation lab in...

Graphene Makes Tiny Sensor Chip Practical

by Alfred Poor | September 10, 2019 | Enabling Tech

The wearable health tech revolution stands on the shoulders of the giant smartphone market. If it were not for the demand for billions of phones every year, the component market would not have reached the scale necessary to support new research and drive down costs....

Robotic Shorts Help Walking and Running [video]

by Bruce Brown | September 9, 2019 | Enabling Tech

In 2017, we wrote about researchers at Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering who focus on wearable robotics to assist human walking. The earlier post reported the team’s...

Artificial Nervous System for Exceptional Touch [video]

by Bruce Brown | September 6, 2019 | Enabling Tech

Researchers and engineers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) developed an artificial nervous system, building on their earlier work with smart skin. The Asynchronous Coded Electronic Skin (ACES) has an exceptional sense of touch and can detect contact more...