by Alfred Poor | July 31, 2015 | Medical
AMBER (Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research) is a research center at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. Researchers there have made a discovery that make great improvements in the detection and diagnosis of a wide range of diseases and conditions. They have...
by Alfred Poor | July 13, 2015 | Enabling Tech
Batteries store electricity, but they’re not ideal for wearable Health Tech devices. They aren’t all that great in terms of how much power they can store in a given space, they are slow to charge, and they are slow to discharge. That’s why designers...
by Alfred Poor | May 20, 2015 | Enabling Tech
A little smudge of carbon could make a huge difference in wireless Health Tech devices. Researchers at the University of Manchester in England have developed a way to print graphene antennas that could lead to low-cost, flexible antennas for everything from RFID tags...
by Alfred Poor | November 17, 2014 | Medical
Diseases such as macular degeneration can damage the light-sensitive cells on the surface of the eye’s retina. Eventually, the patient can lose sight altogether. Researchers have been investigating ways to create implants that would convert light into electrical...
by Alfred Poor | October 10, 2014 | Enabling Tech
We have extolled the wonders of graphene here before; there seems to be no end of what these single-atom-thick sheets of carbon can do. And now comes word from MIT of a new development that expands the potential of this miracle material even further. Carbon is an...
