Adhesive Film Detects Biochemicals in Sweat

Adhesive Film Detects Biochemicals in Sweat

Sweat analysis is the new killer app. In the last few months, we’ve covered a range of new technologies that use or analyze sweat.  A team at the University of California San Diego has developed a wearable sensor that tracks vitamin C levels in sweat....
Edible Electronics for Soft Robotics

Edible Electronics for Soft Robotics

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...
Sensor Can Detect A Feather’s Touch

Sensor Can Detect A Feather’s Touch

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...