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Cell Phone Microphones Help Trace Potential Spread of COVID-19

According to scientists, the signals sent and received from speakers, microphones, and cellular phones can alert people when they are close to someone who has acquired the COVID-19 infection.

1 Jul 2020

New Batteryless Sensors to Monitor and Recycle N95 Masks

Tiny wireless sensors for recycled N95 masks could verify, in real time, whether the respirators are being exposed to proper decontamination conditions.

26 Jun 2020

New Nanoantennas can Drastically Improve Sensitivity of Biosensors

The World Health Organisation has regularly said that rapid testing of patients with COVID-19 is critical to controlling the pandemic, especially with lockdown measures easing across the globe.

24 Jun 2020

New Affordable, Efficient Sensor System Offers Real-Time Patient Data

Apart from cameras, only a few tools exist for health care providers or loved ones to remotely monitor the safety of patients within hospitals and assisted living care facilities.

23 Jun 2020

Disposable Film Transforms Smartwatch into Powerful Health-Monitoring System

Engineers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed a thin adhesive film that could turn a consumer smartwatch into a robust health monitoring system.

18 Jun 2020

New Technique to Print Electronic Sensors Directly on Organs

In groundbreaking new research, mechanical engineers and computer scientists at the University of Minnesota have developed a 3D printing technique that uses motion capture technology, similar to that used in Hollywood movies, to print electronic sensors directly on organs that are expanding and contracting.

18 Jun 2020

Novel Wearable Patch can Benefit People with Melanoma

Conventional melanoma therapies, including chemotherapy and radiotherapy, suffer from the toxicity and side effects of repeated treatments due to the aggressive and recurrent nature of melanoma cells.

17 Jun 2020

New Durable, Low-Power, Wearable Paper-Based Device to Analyze Sweat

At North Carolina State University, scientists have developed a paper-based device as a wearable model that can gather, transfer, and analyze sweat as part of next-generation wearable technology.

10 Jun 2020

Improved Wearable Brain Scanner Helps Understand and Diagnose Mental Illness

An advanced wearable brain scanner has exhibited a new potential to understand and diagnose mental illness following the expansion of the technology to scan the entire brain with millimeter precision.

8 Jun 2020

Color-Changing, Smart Fabrics Track Body and Environment

A team of researchers from the School of Engineering in Tufts University has created novel biomaterial-based inks that change color upon reacting to and measuring the chemicals discharged by the body(for example, in sweat and other possible bio-fluids) or in the surrounding setting.

8 Jun 2020