by Bruce Brown | April 9, 2021 | Enabling Tech
Engineers love a challenge, especially when they can conjure unique solutions. Researchers from the Penn State Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics leading an international team have developed a novel means to power wearables. Led by PSU Professor Larry...
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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...
by Bruce Brown | June 19, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Pain is a complex subject due, among other factors, to its mix of objective and subjective factors. If asked to pick the medical specialty most often associated with pain, dentistry would be at or near the top of the list for most people. A group of scientists,...
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by Bruce Brown | January 4, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Are you ready for this? Used chewing gum may play an important role in the development of biosensors. It turns out, according to the American Chemical Society (ACS), that many sensors used on and in the human body to detect various phenomena are stiff solids that...
by Bruce Brown | December 9, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News
I never had much call for physical therapy until I had complex rotator cuff surgery on both shoulders in the last three years. I now have a much greater appreciation for range of motion, proper alignment, and planes of motion than ever before. When I was in high...
