Search results for wearable electronics

Engineering Sep 9, 2015

New wearable technology can sense appliance use, help track carbon footprint

In today's smart home, technologies can track how much energy a particular appliance like a refrigerator or television or hair dryer is gobbling up. What they don't typically show is which person in the house actually flicked ...

Polymers Feb 20, 2023

Designing advanced 'BTS' materials for temperature and long-wave infrared sensing

Materials scientists are often inspired by nature and therefore use biological compounds as cues to design advanced materials. It is possible to mimic the molecular structure and functional motifs in artificial materials ...

Materials Science Dec 23, 2019

Printing wirelessly rechargeable solid-state supercapacitors for soft, smart contact lenses

Recent advances in smart contact lenses can assist biomedical engineers to realize medical applications and vision imaging for augmented reality with wireless communication systems. Previous research on smart contact lenses ...

Engineering Jan 18, 2016

Intelligent electronics to become durable, flexible and functional through new technology

With the roll-to-roll overmoulding manufacturing process developed by VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, components can be easily overmoulded into durable electronics products such as wearable sports solutions, toys ...

Condensed Matter Sep 8, 2015

Researchers create super-stretchable metallic conductors for flexible electronics

Washington State University researchers have discovered how to stretch metal films used in flexible electronics to twice their size without breaking.

Nanomaterials Dec 10, 2014

Defects are perfect in laser-induced graphene

Researchers at Rice University have created flexible, patterned sheets of multilayer graphene from a cheap polymer by burning it with a computer-controlled laser. The process works in air at room temperature and eliminates ...

Engineering Sep 18, 2012

Electronics that flex and stretch like skin

Imec announced today that it has integrated an ultra-thin, flexible chip with bendable and stretchable interconnects into a package that adapts dynamically to curving and bending surfaces. The resulting circuitry can be embedded ...

Optics & Photonics Jun 30, 2021

Researchers develop wearable sensor to monitor oxygen levels through skin

Researchers have combined a new oxygen-sensing film with machine learning to create a wearable sensor capable of measuring tissue oxygenation through skin. The device could be used to monitor a person's oxygen levels on a ...

Consumer & Gadgets May 23, 2019

Amazon is reportedly working on an Alexa-powered wearable that reads human emotions

Amazon is reportedly developing a voice-activated wearable device that can recognize human emotions.

Nanomaterials Jan 31, 2019

Maximizing the potential of MXenes

Amidst a surge of research over the last two decades focusing on the special properties of structures that are just an atom or two thick, called "two-dimensional" materials, researchers at Drexel University have steadily ...

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