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by Alfred Poor | March 8, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
What are you looking at in the photo above? It’s a sheet of plastic with electrical conductors on its surface. These traces connect LEDs to a power source, and you can see that the electricity is reaching them because they are glowing green. So far, so what?...
by Alfred Poor | February 3, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
According to some experts in the field, the wearable market ultimately will merge with the clothing industry. Our clothes will be “smart” and connected, and will have sensors built in so that we don’t need to bother with separate devices. Is this...
by Alfred Poor | December 18, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News
Wearable and mobile electronics all require one thing: electricity. Unfortunately, strapping on battery packs is not always a convenient solution. While energy harvesting has great promise for producing the power that we need, the problem of how to store it until...
by Alfred Poor | December 9, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News
Electronics by their very nature tend to be fragile devices; if a contact is broken, electricity can not get where it needs to go, and the device may function incorrectly or perhaps not even function at all. In contrast, the human body has evolved to accept all sorts...
by Alfred Poor | August 6, 2015 | Enabling Tech
Here’s a wearable for food packaging. Researchers at UC Berkeley have come up with a “smart” cap that can detect food that has gone bad. Working with scientists at Taiwan’s National Chiao Tung University, they created a cap that measures...
