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 | May 8, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Wearable devices must be comfortable or consumers won’t wear them. Users might wear an uncomfortable device that alleviated extreme pain if there is a significant net comfort gain, but otherwise the chances of voluntary usage are slim. We’ve written about...
by Bruce Brown | February 19, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Research and developments in energy harvesting to power implants and wearables continues to explore fascinating technologies. We’ve written about harvesting energy from human knee motion at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and from carbon nanotube yarn...
