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Sensor-Based Quick and Precise Method to Detect Chemical Warfare Agents

Sarin is a man-made nerve agent that can spread as a liquid or gas. According to the Center for Disease Control, if exposed to large amounts, muscles and glands will become over-stimulated leading to respiratory failure or loss of consciousness. Even small amounts can cause a long list of distressing and risky symptoms.

23 Nov 2018

Stanford Researchers Develop Electronic Glove to Give Robots Manual Dexterity

An electronic glove consisting of sensors has been constructed by Stanford engineers, which could soon offer robotic hands the sort of dexterity that humans take for granted.

22 Nov 2018

Pin-type Humidity Sensor Enabling Easy Replaceability

Sensirion, the expert in environmental sensing, presents the new pin-type relative humidity sensor SHT85 for easy replaceability in a wide range of applications.

From Sensirion AG 20 Nov 2018

Researchers Develop Low-Cost Tactile Imaging Sensors to Measure Pressure Distribution

Touch, or tactile sensing, is basically vital for a range of real-life applications, from surgical medicine to robotics to sports science.

16 Nov 2018

Simple, Scalable Wireless System Uses Common RFID Tags to Detect Contamination in Food

Scientists at the MIT Media Lab have designed a wireless system that leverages the inexpensive RFID tags already on hundreds of billions of products to detect potential food contamination—with no hardware alterations needed.

15 Nov 2018

Transparent Transistors and Biosensors May Improve the Lives of Diabetic Patients

Two researchers from the Oregon State University College of Engineering have made a new breakthrough in nanotechnology that could make the lives of diabetic patients less complicated in the near future.

13 Nov 2018

Novel Quantum Cold-Atom Gravity Sensors Could Help Detect and Monitor Objects Beneath the Ground

A UK consortium of prominent scientific and engineering companies has collaborated to create a new industry of with the ability to detect and monitor objects under the ground in a better way compared to any existing technology, thus minimizing the need for investigative digging or drilling.

12 Nov 2018

Major Breakthrough in Creating Smart Devices Without Batteries

Scientists at the University of Waterloo have achieved a major breakthrough towards creating smart devices that do not use batteries or require charging.

8 Nov 2018

Researchers Develop Artificial Tactile Sensor that Imitates Humans’ Sense of Touch

A new, artificial tactile sensor has been developed by a research team that imitates the human skin’s ability to perceive surface information, for example, structures, shapes, and patterns.

8 Nov 2018

High-Pressure Flowmeter Measures Liquid Refrigerants

Titan Enterprises, a leading manufacturer of specialist flowmeter, reports on the development of a high-pressure turbine meter for measuring the flow of liquid refrigerants.

From Titan Enterprises Ltd. 8 Nov 2018

New Flexible, Wearable Sensor Can Map Blood-Oxygen Levels Anywhere in the Body

Injuries cannot heal without a constant influx of oxygen, blood’s main ingredient.

8 Nov 2018

New Project Aims to Offer System that Detects Threats to Electromagnetic Infrastructure Security

Developing a system for the detection of threats to the electromagnetic space is the goal of a new research project, the SOCRATES project, headed by IMDEA Networks Institute (a networking research organization based in Madrid, Spain).

7 Nov 2018

New Interactive Shutter Eyeglasses with Integrated Sensors Replace Standard Eyepatch Therapy

Lazy eye happens to be a typical complaint among children. This visual impairment—amblyopia, as termed by ophthalmologists—is normally treated by covering up the good eye with an eyepatch.

5 Nov 2018

Researchers Perform Clinical Study to Determine Utility of Wearable Technology in Atrial Fibrillation Diagnosis

A research team from Stanford University’s School of Medicine has recently concluded the enrollment of a large-scale clinical trial in which the Apple Watch was used to establish if a wearable technology can detect atrial fibrillation.

2 Nov 2018

Hyperspectral Imaging Device Accurately Detects Changes in Plant Health

Jian Jin, a professor at Purdue University, has developed a novel, potable sensor that gives farmers and plant scientists a more accurate way of determining the crops’ health while collecting up-to-date data that will prove valuable to federal/state officials and others.

2 Nov 2018