Low-Cost, Scalable Energy Harvesting [video]

by Kimberly Houston | October 4, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News

What if every day, ordinary materials could transform human motion into electricity to power lights, electronic devices, and used for other important applications? Physicists at the Clemson Nanomaterials Institute (CNI) at Clemson University have developed the...

Heart Print Scan May Replace Logins

by Bruce Brown | October 3, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News

Biometric scanning for facility access and computer login isn’t new. Iris scans, fingerprint readers, and more have featured in films and real-world applications for decades. We previously wrote about  Imprivata’s patient ID system that uses infra-red...

Patch Measures Glucose During Exercise

by Kimberly Houston | October 3, 2017 | General News, Medical

Exercise is critical component of an effective diabetes management plan, yet it poses additional challenges of its own.. To exercise safely and avoid hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), diabetics must monitor their blood sugar before, during and after exercise by testing...

Handheld Pen Detects Cancer by Touch [video]

by Bruce Brown | October 2, 2017 | General News, Medical

“We found dangerous cancer, and we need to operate immediately.” No one wants to hear those words. The fact that surgery can even be contemplated throws a faint light of hope. The next concern is whether the surgeons were able to find and remove all...

Carbon Nanofiber Mat as Flexible Supercap

by Alfred Poor | October 2, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News

Tiny sensors and printed electronics make it possible to create small, flexible, wearable Health Tech devices. These devices need electricity to operate, which means that they need a way to store the energy until needed. Most batteries are rigid devices, and often...

Heart Rate Variability Tracking without a Wearable [video]

by Bruce Brown | September 29, 2017 | General News, Health

Heart rate variability (HRV) is a versatile and powerful biometric. Wearable health tech companies rushed to create HRV monitors in many form factors. We wrote about Emfit Limited’s Emfit QS that unrolls and claims to measure HRV accurately through your mattress while...