by Bruce Brown | December 12, 2022 | Enabling Tech
Self-powered wearable garments that double as digital sensors have several advantages over battery-powered devices, primarily because they don’t require batteries. Batteries typically are rigid structures and uncomfortable to wear. Batteries also need...
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by Bruce Brown | August 23, 2021 | Enabling Tech
At Health Tech Insider, we’re suckers for a good wearable energy-harvesting technology. If you can harvest sufficient electricity from your clothing to power wearable devices, you don’t need to replace or recharge batteries. In early 2015, Alfred Poor...
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...
by Bruce Brown | April 5, 2021 | Enabling Tech
They did it again, and not by accident. A team of North Carolina State University engineers focuses on harvesting heat energy from the human body to power wearable electronics. They recently attained even greater efficiency than we reported in 2020. Mehmet Ozturk, NC...
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by Bruce Brown | March 29, 2021 | Enabling Tech
Health Tech Insider publisher Alfred Poor wrote in 2015 that energy harvesting is key to wearable success. Alfred’s premise was that for wearables to be ultimately successful they had to “disappear into our lives.” If we need to replace batteries or...
