Archive: September 2022
Improving wearable medical sensors with ultrathin mesh
On-skin medical sensors and wearable health devices must be incredibly flexible and ultrathin so they can move with the human body.
Wearable power solution for smart-textile electronics
The development of self-powered sensors using textiles could effectively reduce the problems caused by rigid batteries.
Advancing wearable technology for healthcare
Ohio State University’s Asimina Kiourti believes wearable technology can become a vital and seamless part of diagnostic health tools that provide major health benefits, improving...
Wearable sensors styled into T-shirts and face masks
Researchers at Imperial College London, UK, have embedded low-cost sensors that monitor breathing, heart rate and ammonia into T-shirts and face masks.
Energy harvesters show potential that fits like a glove
Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas say they have made significant improvements to energy-harvesting yarns they invented called “twistrons”, which are made from...