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Smart Boots and Leg Wearables Make Strides to Market

From electrically-stimulating leg sleeves to smart industrial work boots, new wearables are safely putting more people on the move.

November 10, 2022 by Jake Hertz

How to Save Space and Development Time When Designing Precision Data Acquisition Systems

High-precision data acquisition is a vital technology in industrial and healthcare applications. This article describes a typical data acquisition (DAQ) system and how a DAQ module from Analog Devices meets the performance needs for such a system.

In partnership with Digi-Key Electronics

US Semi Fab SkyWater Seeks to Co-innovate in Quantum, Photonics, and…Free Silicon?

SkyWater CTO Steven Kosier explains how a US-based semiconductor foundry is innovating in the silicon world without chasing Moore’s Law scaling. This includes efforts in superconductors, quantum, photonics, biosensing, and heterogeneous integration.

September 13, 2022 by Daniel Bogdanoff

Ultrasound Patches Provide Continuous Imaging of Internal Organs

Researchers are refining soft adhesive ultrasound patches that provide continuous imaging—sometimes for up to 48 hours.

September 06, 2022 by Jake Hertz

Researchers Advance Stretchable Electronics Toward Commercialization

A new study from Carnegie Mellon University may usher in an age of mass-producible stretchable soft electronics (SSEs).

September 06, 2022 by Jake Hertz

Caltech’s Wearable Sensor Detects Metabolites and Nutrients From Sweat

Looking beyond uncomfortable blood draws for lab results, Caltech researchers hope to unlock a new era of reusable, continuous sweat-monitoring wearables.

August 19, 2022 by Jake Hertz

Not Limited by Wavelength, OmniVision Shrinks Down to “World’s Smallest” Pixel

OmniVision keeps shrinking the pixel size of its complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensors by introducing its latest sensor with the "world’s smallest" pixel size.

August 17, 2022 by Jake Hertz

ToF Sensors Land Roles in PCs, Smart Door Locks, and More

A new wave of time-of-flight (ToF) sensors are finding use in applications such as PCs, smart door lock facial recognition, 3D image sensing, and more.

August 06, 2022 by Antonio Anzaldua Jr.

Compact Discs Get a New Lease on Life as Flexible Biosensors

Researchers from Binghamton University have found a way to upcycle CDs into sensors that measure heart activity, lactate, glucose, pH, and oxygen levels.

August 03, 2022 by Darshil Patel

Could the Next Step in Wearables be E-Tattoos?

Where other wearables falter, e-tattoos are showing major promise, especially in the medical field regarding blood pressure monitoring.

July 27, 2022 by Jake Hertz

Breath-controlled IoT Expands Accessibility to the Smart Home

For people unable to use voice- or touch-controlled IoT devices, the nose-clip prototype may make breath-based home automation a reality.

July 26, 2022 by Chantelle Dubois

Startup Leaps Ahead of Neuralink With First Human BCI Implant

Synchron recently announced the human brain-computer interface (BCI) implant done on a human in the U.S.

July 20, 2022 by Jake Hertz

Introduction to Allan Variance—Non-overlapping and Overlapping Allan Variance

Learn about non-overlapping and overlapping Allan variance and how the Allan variance curve can be used to identify different types of random errors present in a signal.

July 08, 2022 by Dr. Steve Arar

FIFA Shoots to Score by Adopting Semi-automated Offside Technology

Technology finds use in all sorts of places, especially in sports. Recently, FIFA has spurred sports tech with a system to generate automated offside alerts in future contests.

July 07, 2022 by Jake Hertz

Semtech Cloud Service Simplifies LoRa IoT Asset Tracking

By moving location calculation to the cloud, Semtech’s new service allows for lower-power LoRa devices to be embedded in tracked Internet of Things (IoT) assets.

June 22, 2022 by Jeff Child

New Sensor Harnesses Energy From Movement for Human-machine Interfaces

Solar, thermal, and wind are common sources of energy harvesting. Now, a triboelectric tactile sensor draws energy from movement to power wearables.

May 20, 2022 by Antonio Anzaldua Jr.

Alternative Energy Harvesting Techniques Emerge for Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor networks need energy harvesting to replace battery power. Researchers are coming up with innovative ways to get energy from alternative sources—even human sweat.

May 14, 2022 by Darshil Patel

Clothing That Can Hear? MIT Researchers Create Acoustic Fabric

Taking inspiration from the biological auditory system, MIT researchers have created a fabric that senses sound signals and converts them to electrical signals, analogous to how a microphone works.

March 25, 2022 by Abdulwaliy Oyekunle

Paragraf Proves the Viability of Graphene for In-Vitro Diagnostics

After a successful Series B funding round, Paragraf is ready to take on bigger challenges—venturing into graphene-based biosensing.

March 18, 2022 by Jake Hertz

Researchers Leverage Photonics in Radar System to Detect Down to the Millimeter

Scientists from the University of Sydney have developed a new type of photonic radar system and sensor promising non-invasive medical monitoring.

February 17, 2022 by Kristijan Nelkovski