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Electronic Skin

Asynchronous Coded Electronic Skin (ACES)
Engineers at the National University of Singapore have invented what they call “Asynchronous Coded Electronic Skin” [MORE]

Hydrogels with Flexible Electronics

Hydrogels with flexible electronics
“Hydrogel” entered the biomedical lexicon 125 years ago, and its variations now include uses for wound healing, [MORE]

3D Body Mapping of Damaged Organs

3D body scanning
Using a tissue scaffold with arrays of sensors, tissue engineers at Purdue University have shown how to monitor [MORE]

Glucose Powered Artificial Muscle

Artificial muscle
“Scientists at Linköping University have blurred the line between robot and organism by developing an artificial muscle that runs [MORE]

“Health Waze”

Digital health infographic.
Waze GPS is a software product from Google that aids driving navigation.  In this piece the medical chair [MORE]

Force Sensing in Medical Devices

Force sensing technology
This piece from sensor maker, Tekscan, Inc. (South Boston, MA) describes the many applications of force sensing in [MORE]

Graphene Yarn

Graphene yarns for wearable textiles
The University of Manchester is the discovery hearth of graphene, and now its researchers have proposed [MORE]

Putting Ingestible Sensors on Food

Edible circuits
You’ll recall children’s’ play tattoos—printed on a transfer film and stuck to skin.  The grown-up version of this is [MORE]

Smart Thread for Wearables

EPFL researchers develop a smart thread
Quoting directly: “At the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) researchers have developed a smart thread [MORE]

Customized Electronics Printed on the Hand

3D Printing on a real hand
“In a groundbreaking new study, researchers at the University of Minnesota used a customized, low-cost [MORE]

Self-Healing Electronic Skin

Electronic Skin
The chief aim with malleable, self-healing, recyclable electronic skin is to improve prosthetics (e.g. better surface control of microbes) [MORE]

Dissolvable Sensors Inside the Body

Fiber Bragg Grating
William Henry Bragg (the father) and William Lawrence Bragg (the son) uniquely shared the 1915 Nobel Prize in [MORE]

Continuous Cell Culture

Continuous Cell Culture-
Think of how ice cream is made. At home, ingredients go into a canister which gets cranked in [MORE]

Smart Prosthetics

Smart Prosthetics (MOIP)
To address the needs of military amputees, the Naval Research Lab and collaborators have created a smart artificial [MORE]