Engineering
Recent technological advances have enabled the development of increasingly compact and flexible devices. This includes wearable or portable technology, such as smart watches, earphones or other smart accessories, which can ...
Nov 25, 2020 feature
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Electronics & Semiconductors
In recent years, engineers worldwide have been trying to create electronic components that are increasingly flexible and versatile, as this could enable the fabrication of more sophisticated devices and robotic systems, such ...
Nov 2, 2020 feature
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Engineering
Engineers at Tufts University have created a first-of-its-kind flexible electronic sensing patch that can be sewn into clothing to analyze your sweat for multiple markers. The patch could be used to to diagnose and monitor ...
Jul 28, 2020
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Engineering
Interconnected healthcare and many other future applications will require internet connectivity between billions of sensors. The devices that will enable these applications must be small, flexible, reliable, and environmentally ...
Mar 23, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Soft and flexible materials can ultrasonically charge bioelectronic implants, which could help to reduce the need for surgical treatment.
Mar 9, 2020
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Electronics & Semiconductors
At the heart of any electronic device is a cold, hard computer chip, covered in a miniature city of transistors and other semiconducting elements. Because computer chips are rigid, the electronic devices that they power, ...
Feb 6, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
North Carolina State University engineers have demonstrated a flexible device that harvests the heat energy from the human body to monitor health. The device surpasses all other flexible harvesters that use body heat as the ...
Jan 30, 2020
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Cyborgs are no longer science fiction. The field of brain-machine interfaces (BMI) – which use electrodes, often implanted into the brain, to translate neuronal information into commands capable of controlling external ...
Sep 6, 2019
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Engineering
Hearing aids, dental crowns, and limb prosthetics are some of the medical devices that can now be digitally designed and customized for individual patients, thanks to 3-D printing. However, these devices are typically designed ...
Jun 20, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
Samsung watchers are buzzing around over a discovered patent filing with the World Intellectual Property Office. Topic in hand: a design for some kind of rollable device.
Jun 14, 2019 weblog
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