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Electronic skin patches: beyond medtech
Electronic skin patches are a technology with great potential, largely within the healthcare sector. This is…
Wearable sensors in healthcare
By 2050, there will be around 83.7 million senior citizens in the United States, increasing rapidly from 49.2…
Wrist-worn platform for monitoring ECG, heart rate and temperature
Designers seeking to enable continuous monitoring of various health parameters can now quickly create highly…
Paper test detects false or substandard antibiotics
Antibiotics – medicines that treat bacterial infections – have saved millions of lives worldwide since their…
Smart wristband could monitor environmental exposures
Rutgers University–New Brunswick engineers have created a smart wristband with a wireless connection to smartphones…
Losing the wires: patient monitoring via electronic skin patches
The IDTechEx report, Electronic Skin Patches 2018-2028, covers this area in a dedicated chapter looking at wireless…
Microsoft’s glasses to continuously monitor blood pressure
Researchers at Microsoft have developed Glabella, a wearable device that continuously and unobtrusively monitors…
Ultrasound market receives latest high-performance 16-channel pulser
Targeting key medical and industrial applications, STMicroelectronics has launched a new high-voltage, compact,…
Air quality sensor to help combat the cause of health problems
Extending its portfolio of environmental sensing solutions, Rutronik has offered the B5W-LD0101 air quality sensor…
Skin patches: the advantages of the ultimate wearable
Electronic skin patches could well be described as the ultimate wearable electronic devices. They deploy electronic…