Not a Wheelchair [video]

by Amantha May | July 29, 2020 | Enabling Tech, Health

People who rely on a wheelchair have limited access to natural landscapes because wheelchairs don’t have the power or strength to handle off-road conditions. All-terrain wheelchairs can help, but these vehicles have a high price tag; reliable models can cost...

UPS Delivers Medical Supplies by Drone [VIDEO]

by Amantha May | July 22, 2020 | Enabling Tech

In September 2019, UPS became the first company to receive a Federal Aviation Administration certification to operate a drone delivery aircraft. UPS is now partnering with iQ Healthtech Labs to provide drone delivery of medical supplies and PPE to a network of...

Accidental Discovery: Energy Harvesting from Air

by Bruce Brown | July 17, 2020 | Enabling Tech

What do penicillin, microwave ovens, pacemakers, Silly Putty, LSD, The Slinky, Post-It notes, X-rays, and inkjet printers have in common? They were all discovered by accident, usually by scientists investigating or intent on inventing something completely different....

Draw Your Own Health Sensor [video]

by Amantha May | July 17, 2020 | Enabling Tech

Sometimes, the future arrives as a low-tech innovation that redefines simple technology from the past. It doesn’t get much simpler than a graphite pencil: a device widely used today that has barely deviated from its original design from the 1500s. What goes hand in...

Your Clothes Know How You Move

by Bruce Brown | July 14, 2020 | Enabling Tech

Smart clothing, smart fabrics, and smart yarns have great potential for a wide range of wearable applications. If your shirt can track vital signs data and your pants can monitor your workouts, you don’t need separate wearable devices. We’ve written in the...

Drug Delivery Microrobots Navigate Circulatory System

by Bruce Brown | July 13, 2020 | Enabling Tech

Scientists at the Stuttgart-based Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS) have developed a microrobot that theoretically can deliver drugs to specific locations in the human body via the circulatory system. To date, the engineers have tested the...