Wearable devices

Stretchy Wearables Can Now Heal Themselves

September 24, 2024
Biotechnology & Biomedical

If you’ve ever tried to get a bandage to stick to your elbow, you understand the difficulty in creating wearable devices that attach securely to the human body. Add digital electronic circuitry, and the problem becomes more complicated. Now include the need for the device to fix breaks and damage…

22 Mar 24

Pressure-Relief Eye Tech Advances Toward Approval

Computer & Information Technology

On 21 March, an advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave its unanimous blessing to a piece of wearable technology that alleviates symptoms of the progressive eye disease glaucoma.Known as the FSYX Ocular Pressure Adjusting Pump (OPAP) system, the device is designed to ease the pressure that…

19 Jan 24

Glowing Threads Illuminate New Prospects for Clothing

Computer & Information Technology

Gone are the days of humdrum fibers that do nothing beyond hold together the clothes we wear and bags we carry. In a paper published on 3 January in Science Advances, researchers from Purdue University in Indiana have created a new prototype of electroluminescent thread that can glow blue, green,…

01 Nov 23

Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Mechanical, Production & Manufacturing

Wearable devices, like nearly every other piece of tech, need energy. Fortunately, though, at wearables’ modest power budgets, energy is effectively everywhere. It’s in the sun’s rays and radio waves, the skin’s sweat and body heat, a person’s motion and their footfalls. And today, technology is maturing to the point…

07 Jun 23

Application of WiPL-D Pro CAD to Flexible Antennas

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

This whitepaper demonstrates the application of a new powerful Wrap command of WiPL-D Pro CAD EM simulator which enables the analysis of flexible and wearable circuits. Download this free whitepaper now!The Wrap command is versatile, user friendly and allows simple and effective transformation of flat sheet bodies to bodies wrapped…

Stretchy Wearables Can Now Heal Themselves

Pressure-Relief Eye Tech Advances Toward Approval

Glowing Threads Illuminate New Prospects for Clothing

Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

Application of WiPL-D Pro CAD to Flexible Antennas

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