POSTS TAGGED AS wearable sensors

Carbon Nanotube Sensors in Wearable Fabrics

Carbon-based nanomaterials
“The material,” from researchers at the University of Houston, “involves the use of carbon nanotubes and is capable of [MORE]

Proximity Tags Monitor Blood Pressure, et al

Proximity Tags
“Technology developed at Cornell involves tags worn on clothing, or just placed near the patient, that emit radio waves [MORE]

Improving Bioelectronics for Biomarker Sensitivity

Erin Ratcliff and Zachary Kushian Achieve Selectivity of Biomarkers
Figuring out how to more effectively control the electron transfer rate between [MORE]

Wearable Fiber Optics Tracks Body Movements

Stretchy Sensory Fabric
Engineers at Beijing’s Tsinghua University have created a sensitive and flexible optical fiber that opens new possibilities for [MORE]

Lab on a Glove

ACS Lab on a Glove
Quoting this piece: “A recent study published in the journal ACS Sensors describes a novel flexible, [MORE]

Applying Artificial Intelligence to Diabetes Management

 
Diabetes Mellitus
A new diabetes management system that relies on wearable stickers (i.e. biometric sensors) and a self-optimizing algorithm to track [MORE]

24 Hr. Sensors

Lab Monitors Sleep in Special Needs Children
Engineering scientists at Kansas State University are developing and testing a system of passive [MORE]

Wearable Blood Flow Monitor

Blood Flow Monitor
Electrical engineers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have designed a prototype blood flow sensor as a wearable [MORE]

Printing “Smart Skin”

Skin
Some stories are fetching just because they are so fetching. This is one of those, about electrical engineers at Georgia [MORE]

Bioink for Drawing Electrical Circuits on Skin

Bio-Ink that Senses Glucose
There’s nothing particularly new about pens with conductive ink for drawing electrical circuits. But applying that idea [MORE]

Jump Tracking

 
Vert Jump Tracker
Many of Tagline’s readers are university-employed scientists and engineers.  Considering the revenue generation of university athletics, could become [MORE]

Tiny Accelerometers

Accelerometers
Spanning less than one millimeter across, a new accelerometer from mCube (San Jose, CA) offers new potential to wearable monitors, [MORE]

Microsoft’s Home Automation Providers

Home Automation Systems
This piece is not about medical automation, but it does describe Microsoft’s vision for home automation that only [MORE]

Vital Signs Tracking via Earbuds to Smartphone

Earbuds Capture Heart Rate
By putting an infrared optical emitter, photodetector and accelerometer into an earbud, a Raleigh, NC company, Valencell, [MORE]