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Standalone Sweat Sensor Provides Immediate Results
Engineers have developed a thin, flexible, stretchy sweat sensor that can show the level of glucose, lactate, sodium, or pH of your sweat — at the press of a finger.
R&D Medical
Novel Device Measures Nerve Activity
Researchers have developed a device to noninvasively measure cervical nerve activity in humans.
Briefs Photonics/Optics
Oculometric Testing for Detecting Mild Neural Impairment
This set of oculomotor metrics provide valid and reliable measures of dynamic visual performance.
Briefs Test & Measurement
Wearable Device Monitors Jaundice-Causing Bilirubin and Vitals in Newborns
Device detects pulse rate and blood oxygen saturation in real time.
Briefs Imaging
High-Speed Camera Captures Signals Traveling Through Nerve Cells
Combining high-speed camera and interferometer technology enables the detection of electrical pulses travelling through nerve cells.
Briefs Robotics, Automation & Control
New Capabilities for Grasp-Assisting Gloves
NASA is developing the next generation of spacesuits for future missions.
Application Briefs Photonics/Optics
Measuring Blood Glucose Levels with Lasers
DiaMonTech used the Ophir Pyrocam to measure and characterize all their laser developments.
R&D Imaging
Pulsed MRI System Could Selectively Deliver Drugs to the Brain
Using an office-based human-sized version of this non-invasive device, it may prove possible to cure Alzheimer’s by delivering drugs and genes to specified tracts in the brain under real-time imaging guidance.
Briefs Medical
Novel Chemical Glucose Sensing Method Based on Boronic Acids and Graphene Foam
Since it is a chemical sensor instead of being enzyme-based, the new technology is robust, has a long shelf-life and can be tuned to detect lower glucose concentrations than current systems.
R&D Photonics/Optics
Optical Fiber Sensor Measures Deviations in Spine
The sensors have already been used to monitor the curvature of structures and robotic arms. But measuring both the magnitude and direction of the spine’s curvature presents an additional challenge.
Briefs Medical
Extraction of Largely Unexplored Bodily Fluid Could Be a New Source of Biomarkers
Fluid could provide a new source of information for routine diagnostic testing.
R&D Robotics, Automation & Control
Tiny Swimming Robots Treat Deadly Pneumonia in Mice
The microrobots are made of algae cells whose surfaces are speckled with antibiotic-filled nanoparticles.
R&D Nanotechnology
Wireless Activation of Targeted Brain Circuits
A research team has created wireless technology to remotely activate specific brain circuits in fruit flies in under one second. The team used magnetic signals to activate targeted neurons...
R&D Robotics, Automation & Control
Microfluidic-Based Soft Robotic Prosthetics
Scientists have developed a new type of prosthetic using microfluidics-enabled soft robotics that promises to greatly reduce skin ulcerations and pain in patients who have had an amputation...
Briefs Medical
AI-Enabled Optical Fiber Sensor Device Monitors Brain Injury
The results from tests on animal brain tissues suggest it could help clinicians to better monitor both disease progression and patients’ response to treatment than is currently possible.
Briefs Medical
Powering an ‘Arm’ with Air Could Be Mighty Handy
Mechanical engineers have built a handy extra limb able to grasp objects and go, powered only by compressed air. It’s one of several ideas the engineers at Rice University’s...
Briefs Medical
Novel Algorithm on Wearable Devices May Prompt Early Care
Researchers developed a novel software algorithm to analyze pulse rate signals and infer the presence of atrial fibrillation on one brand of wearables.
Briefs Medical
Novel Chemical Glucose Sensing Method Based on Boronic Acids and Graphene Foam
Since it is a chemical sensor instead of being enzyme-based, the new technology is robust, has a long shelf-life and can be tuned to detect lower glucose concentrations than current systems.
R&D Medical
Breath-Driven Concept Could Transform Prosthetics
Researchers have developed a hand prosthesis powered and controlled by the user’s breathing. The simple, lightweight device offers an alternative to Bowden cable-driven body-powered...
R&D Wearables
‘Smart’ Necklace May Track Health Through Sweat
A team of researchers has demonstrated a battery-free, wireless biochemical sensor that detected the blood sugar — or glucose — humans excrete from their skin when they...
R&D Medical
Smartphone Clip-On Detects Zika in Blood
Researchers have developed an instrument that can be clipped on to a smartphone to rapidly test for Zika virus in a single droplet of blood.
Briefs Materials
Helmet Made of Magnetic Metamaterials Could Improve Brain Scans
It may look like a bizarre bike helmet, or a piece of equipment found in Doc Brown’s lab in Back to the Future, yet this gadget made of plastic and copper wire is a...
Briefs Robotics, Automation & Control
Advanced Humanoid Robotic Hand Technologies
The R2 hand and forearm assembly is designed in a modular fashion, enabling rapid replacement of components and sub-assemblies.
NASA Spinoff Photonics/Optics
Webb Telescope Mirror Tech Improves Eye Surgery on Earth
Eye surgery patients on Earth are benefiting from early research on the NASA’s James Webb Telescope’s enormous mirrors.
Q&A Robotics, Automation & Control
Q&A: Artificial Skin Could Lead to a New Generation of Touch-Sensitive Robots
A team of engineers from the University of Glasgow led by Professor Ravinder Dahiya developed an artificial skin with a new type of processing system based on...
Articles Manufacturing & Prototyping
Superior Organ Transport Moves Forward
A life-saving device developed by Vascular Perfusion Solutions uses compressed oxygen to extend the life of organs for transplants.
Technology Leaders Electronics & Computers
Advanced Motor Technology Enables Medical Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation
The primary aim for Harmonic Bionics is to empower patients and care providers by designing intelligent technology that facilitated a data-driven treatment protocol...
R&D Medical
Understanding Titanium’s Biocompatibility
Scientists used photoelectrochemical measurement and x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy to clarify the source of titanium’s biocompatibility when implanted into the body, as with hip...
Briefs Medical
‘Bionic’ Pacemaker Reverses Heart Failure
A revolutionary pacemaker that re-establishes the heart’s naturally irregular beat is set to be trialed in New Zealand heart patients this year, following successful animal trials.
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