Thermal Image Sensing Tracks 3D Hand Positions [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 4, 2020 | Enabling Tech, General News

Researchers at Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin, Madison working together at Cornell’s SciFi Lab developed FingerTrak, a potentially breakthrough wearable that tracks human hand motion in 3D. The SciFi Lab is a new interdisciplinary lab...

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...