#Wearables

Joseph Shavit

Innovative ink coating can power wearable devices via heat

Researchers at KTH report that they are closing in on a way to replace batteries for wearables and low-power applications in the IoT.

Joseph Shavit

Silicone wristbands track firefighters’ exposures to harmful chemicals

Firefighters have a 9 percent higher risk of being diagnosed with cancer and a 14 percent higher risk of dying from the disease than average

Joseph Shavit

New medical-grade wearable continuously monitors at-risk people at home

The virtual care products automatically monitor a patient’s vital signs remotely to prevent this series of events from playing out.

Joseph Shavit

Researchers develop a wearable device for safe, noninvasive, optical brain imaging

Recent advances in brain imaging techniques facilitate accurate, high-resolution observations of the brain and its functions.

Joseph Shavit

New fitness sensor uses sweat to monitor real-time performance

Researchers have developed a prototype wearable sensor, developed with a new MXene–hydrogel compound, which may prove valuable to athletes.

Joshua Shavit

Stretchy, bendy, flexible PeLEDs may be the first step in an electronics revolution

Sure, you could attach two screens with a hinge and call a cell phone “foldable,” but what if you could roll it up and put it in your wallet

Joseph Shavit

Bioengineers develop new class of human-powered bioelectronics

The technology converts human body motions into electricity that could be used to power wearable and implantable diagnostic sensors.

Joshua Shavit

Wearable energy: Woven nanotube fibers turn heat into power

Flexible thermoelectric generators could be useful way to make carbon ‘green’

Joseph Shavit

Engineers create first digital fiber with memory, temperature sensors, and trained neural network

MIT researchers have created the first fiber with digital capabilities, able to sense, store, analyze, and infer activity in clothes.

Joseph Shavit

The power to recharge your wearable devices while you sleep is at your fingertips

A new wearable device turns the touch of a finger into a source of power for small electronics and sensors.