Electronic- cardiac catheter
“[R]esearchers [at George Washington and Northwestern Universities] have developed a new type of catheter that conforms well with [MORE]
Sprinter with Lactate Curve – sweat sensing materials
From electrical engineers at Tufts University: “. . . we present a thread-based [MORE]
Tactile enhancement
Chinese engineers have shown how a silvery material used to make an ultra-thin sensor can enhance the sense of [MORE]
Smart building technology
For example, “Humber River Hospital is an affiliate of the University of Toronto and Queen’s University. The facility [MORE]
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
“Hydrogel” entered the biomedical lexicon 125 years ago, and its variations now include uses for wound healing, [MORE]
3D body scanning
Using a tissue scaffold with arrays of sensors, tissue engineers at Purdue University have shown how to monitor [MORE]
Artificial muscle
“Scientists at Linköping University have blurred the line between robot and organism by developing an artificial muscle that runs [MORE]
Digital health infographic.
Waze GPS is a software product from Google that aids driving navigation. In this piece the medical chair [MORE]
Force sensing technology
This piece from sensor maker, Tekscan, Inc. (South Boston, MA) describes the many applications of force sensing in [MORE]
Graphene yarns for wearable textiles
The University of Manchester is the discovery hearth of graphene, and now its researchers have proposed [MORE]
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]
EPFL researchers develop a smart thread
Quoting directly: “At the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) researchers have developed a smart thread [MORE]
3D Printing on a real hand
“In a groundbreaking new study, researchers at the University of Minnesota used a customized, low-cost [MORE]