Origami Magic Ball Gripper Packs Bags [video]

by Bruce Brown | March 20, 2019 | Enabling Tech

Most people routinely pick up hundreds of objects during a typical day, and they never give a second thought. For mechanical devices — such as robots or powered prosthetics — gripping objects of different sorts can pose a serious challenge. And if the...

Ultralow Power High Efficiency Printed Transistors

by Bruce Brown | March 19, 2019 | Enabling Tech

We constantly seek ways to achieve the highest usable output with the lowest power consumption. No matter how far engineers and scientists push the limits of knowledge chasing optimal net ROE (return on energy), there will always be room for improvement. Space travel,...

Who Are You? Your Heart Knows.

by Alfred Poor | March 14, 2019 | Enabling Tech, Health, Medical

Most articles about wearable tech focus on the health-related uses of biometric data. Measurements of body functions such as heart rate, temperature, and breathing rate can help identify disease and other conditions. But there’s another big problem facing...

CPES2019 Features Printed Electronics [video]

by Alfred Poor | March 11, 2019 | Enabling Tech

Electronics used to mean running insulated wires between discrete components. Then came printed circuit boards and integrated circuits contained in chips. But wearable devices need new solutions; circuitry must be able to stretch and bend along with human body parts....

Harvesting Solar Energy to Power Wearables

by Bruce Brown | March 7, 2019 | Enabling Tech

Research into new power technologies for wearables continues on many fronts. With tech worn on the wrist, pinned to or integrated with garments, or embedded in prostheses, choosing the best power source can be tricky. We’ve written about innovative power tech...

LTE-M Certified Medical and Health Data Wearable [video]

by Bruce Brown | March 6, 2019 | Enabling Tech, Health, Medical

Smartwatches are poised to take off during 2019 as standalone health tech wearables and for their data aggregation and transmission roles for other devices. We’ve written recently about Withings Move ECG smartwatch. Omron’s HeartGuide oscillometric blood...