Archive: November 2024
Health sensors headed to the Moon
The Canadian Space Agency has awarded Hexoskin a contract to develop and adapt the Astroskin Bio-Monitor crew physiological monitoring system for Gateway, the upcoming space…
Knitted ‘blanket’ of sophisticated radio-frequency antennas
A team from the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University have used their expertise in metasurfaces – ultra-thin optical components that can…
Integrating high-power LEDs in textiles
Weartronic, the French start-up specialising in the development of smart clothing, has finalised a second patent concerning the integration of high-power light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in…
Seatbelt-integrated biosensor could track alertness and stress of drivers
Researchers at the National University of Singapore and China’s Tsinghua University have developed a new sensor that can pick up and track biological signals, such…
Passive sensing and battery-less devices
In a presentation on his research given at the UK’s Loughborough University in November, Professor Terry Tao Ye, IAS Visiting Fellow, demonstrated the potential of…