New Flexible Sensor Is Printed Directly onto Skin

by Amantha May | November 2, 2020 | Enabling Tech, General News

Flexible sensors, like the ones used in skin patches, offer a more precise and comfortable health monitoring option than larger wearable devices with rigid electrodes and wires. Expanding on these advantages, researchers at the Penn State Department of Engineering...

New Process Uses X-Rays for 3D Printing

by Bruce Brown | October 22, 2020 | Enabling Tech

Researchers are pushing the capabilities of 3D printing, using soft materials for medical applications such as drug delivery systems, cartilage replacement, retinal implants, and much more. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have...

Two Milestones in Organ Delivery by Drone [video]

by Bruce Brown | October 20, 2020 | Enabling Tech

We’ve written about unmanned aircraft aka drones delivering medical supplies to remote areas and emergency sites, We also covered an FAA-approved drone delivery service, blood delivery, and the first transplant donor kidney drone delivery in Maryland. In...

New Tiny Robots Walk on Four Legs

by Bruce Brown | October 12, 2020 | Enabling Tech

Cornell’s microscopic robots have legs! In August in Nature, two Cornell professors and a former Cornell postdoctoral researcher (now a University of Pennsylvania assistant professor) detailed their developments with tiny walking robots in the article,...

Innovative, Self-Powered Paper Keyboard [VIDEO]

by Amantha May | September 18, 2020 | Enabling Tech, General News

Paper-based electronics have captivated research teams for the last several years. Teams from research institutions worldwide have designed paper electrodes, electric circuits, and origami-inspired generators, to name just a few examples. A new preprint paper,...

Perpetual Power from Diamonds and Nuclear Waste [video]

by Bruce Brown | September 15, 2020 | Enabling Tech

Technology development usually crawls, sometimes jogs along smoothly, and occasionally leaps forward with astounding results. If technologists succeed in bringing the theory of nanodiamond battery (NDB) technology to market, they will vault two significant challenges:...