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Flexible Heart Catheters

November 10, 2020 | | Posted in Newsletter

Electronic- cardiac catheter
“[R]esearchers [at George Washington and Northwestern Universities] have developed a new type of catheter that conforms well with [MORE]

Sweat Sensors in Clothing

October 6, 2020 | | Posted in Newsletter

Sprinter with Lactate Curve – sweat sensing materials
From electrical engineers at Tufts University: “. . . we present a thread-based [MORE]

Tactile Enhancement

May 12, 2020 | | Posted in Newsletter

Tactile enhancement
Chinese engineers have shown how a silvery material used to make an ultra-thin sensor can enhance the sense of [MORE]

Healthcare’s Smart Buildings

April 7, 2020 | | Posted in Newsletter

Smart building technology
For example, “Humber River Hospital is an affiliate of the University of Toronto and Queen’s University. The facility [MORE]

Electronic Skin

November 19, 2019 | | Posted in Newsletter

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

November 5, 2019 | | Posted in Newsletter

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

October 1, 2019 | | Posted in Newsletter

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

September 10, 2019 | | Posted in Newsletter

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

“Health Waze”

August 6, 2019 | | Posted in Newsletter

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

July 2, 2019 | | Posted in Newsletter

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

Graphene Yarn

May 28, 2019 | | Posted in Newsletter

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

May 14, 2019 | | Posted in Newsletter

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

August 21, 2018 | | Posted in Newsletter

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

July 24, 2018 | | Posted in Newsletter

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