Samsung WELT Tells You When You’re Getting Fat [video]

by Bruce Brown | September 1, 2016 | Health

If you’re out to dinner and decide to just let go and overeat, you can always just loosen your belt a notch and no one will be the wiser, right? Well, you won’t get away with it with a Welt Corporation WELT. The WELT belt tracks your waist size, steps,...

Flexible, Low-Voltage Artificial Muscle Could Have Wide Uses

by Alfred Poor | September 1, 2016 | Enabling Tech

In order to make a robot limb — or powered prosthetic — move, you need to have an actuator of some sort: something to apply force that will create motion. Common solutions rely on hydraulics (liquid pumps), pneumatics (air pumps), or electric motors. These...

Medical Grade Heart Rate Monitoring off the Top of Your Head [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 31, 2016 | General News, Health

Whether you’re tracking your heart rate for general fitness or for a more specific wellness concern, there are many choices. You can wear wristbands, armbands, or even chest straps which many have considered the most accurate, if not the most comfortable. Now...

Origami Meets Nanotechnology in Stretchy Supercaps

by Alfred Poor | August 31, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

Power storage for wearable devices poses problems. The ideal solution would pack a lot of energy in a small package, be flexible, be stretchable, and could discharge or recharge rapidly. Unfortunately, that does not describe your typical battery technology....

iPads as Effective as Sedatives for Children Prior to Anesthesia

by Bruce Brown | August 30, 2016 | General News, Medical

  As many parents of small children can tell you, hand a tablet or smartphone to a cranky kid and let them watch a video or play with an app to calm them down. As it turns out, there may be a medical application for this same solution. Pediatric surgery typically...

Octobot Autonomous Robot Is Soft [video]

by Alfred Poor | August 30, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

Take 3D printing technology, add some clever chemistry, and you have the recipe for a “soft” autonomous robot that can move without being tethered to an external power source. In fact, it does not contain any electronics at all. This marvel was created by...