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Wearable sensor patches offer many opportunities for healthcare and wellness applications. For comfort and reliability, they should be flexible, soft, conformable, or even stretchable. Printed and hybrid electronics enable the use of almost any substrate and packaging materials, making it essential.
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Lan Yang and Jie Liao’s optical barcodes for multimode sensing have potential applications in biomedical diagnostics, environmental monitoring, chemical sensing and more
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Today’s high-end wearables can support an impressive array of sensors to record, for example, the wearer’s V02 max, blood oxygen saturation (Sp02), temperature, heart rate, and heart rate variability (HRV), as well as the sleep and activity data their early predecessors pioneered.
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Low-cost, wearable sensors could increase access to care for patients with Parkinson’s disease. New machine-learning approaches and a baseline of data from healthy older adults improve the accuracy of the results from such sensors
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Innovative wire mesh filters set new standards in medical technology, where smooth processes mean the difference between life and death. The same is true for the chemical industry. Here, filtration components must function perfectly even under extreme conditions and in contact with corrosive media.
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Lan Yang and her team have developed new plug-and-play hardware to dramatically enhance the sensitivity of optical sensors
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New modular, spring-like devices maximize the work of live muscle fibers so they can be harnessed to power biohybrid bots.
Murata Manufacturing (Murata) has developed a technology that has the potential to enable ultrasonic scans, which are presently used to view the fetus within the uterus, to be used to view the brain within the cranium.
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In this episode, we discuss a breakthrough from ETH Zurich to mimic natural foot signals to the brain using state of the art neuroprosthetics.
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Aaron Young’s team has developed a wear-and-go approach that requires no calibration or training.
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FREMAP uses Xsens motion capture to analyze the ergonomic impact of progressive lenses in the workplace and makes recommendations for improvement
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Stanford researchers have developed soft integrated circuits that are powerful enough to drive a micro-LED screen and small enough to read thousands of sensors in a single square centimeter.
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3D printed Body-contouring Therapeutic Positioning Equipment provides support for people with mild to moderate control of the body and reduces damage caused by improper seating during child development.
In this episode, we discuss a novel sticker capable of monitoring the health of organs in real time allowing for more successful organ transplants and catching signs of diseases earlier than ever!
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Medical device manufacturer adopts Nexa3D’s FIM process to shorten times-to-market on complex medical devices
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