by Alfred Poor | December 19, 2014 | Enabling Tech
One challenge for artificial limbs — whether they are attached to a robot or to a human as a prosthetic — is to sense pressure. The feedback from your fingertips tells you if you are gripping an object firmly enough. If it starts to slip, you can sense it...
by Alfred Poor | November 19, 2014 | Enabling Tech
Grains of sand? Tiny jewels? Actually, the photo above shows items that fall somewhere between. They are miniature sensors, and they cost a bit more than sand but far less than precious stones. And yet they can perform miracles when it comes to gathering data in...
by Alfred Poor | October 31, 2014 | Enabling Tech
Researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP in collaboration with scientists at the Technical University of Dresden and Oulu University in Finland have developed a new way to create thin-film piezoelectric...
by Alfred Poor | October 24, 2014 | Enabling Tech
One problem with embedded sensors for health and medical applications is getting power to the devices. Physical wires brought to the skin can be difficult to embed and pose a risk as an entry point for infection. Wireless power transfer is one possibility, but some...
by Alfred Poor | October 20, 2014 | Enabling Tech
Those tiny black flecks in the photo above may not look like much, but they could be the key to a revolution in wearable Health Tech devices. What you see in this picture is are bits of single-layer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), and researchers at Columbia Engineering...
