#New Conductive Ink Can Print Sensors Onto Wearables Researchers at the University of Tokyo have invented a new conductive ink that can be used to print sensors onto wearable technologies.
which will allow sensors to be incorporated into electronic apparel for measuring biological data, including heart rate and muscle contraction.
The team used this ink to produce a wrist-band muscle activity sensor. An elastic conductor was printed onto sportswear material,
and this was combined with an organic transistor amplifier circuit. The sensor features nine electrodes that are placed 2 cm apart from one another in a 3 x 3 grid
and can detect muscle electrical potentials to measure muscle activity y
#Smart Mouth Guard with Sensors Detects Teeth Grinding The next big thing in wearable technology may show up right inside your mouth.
Researchers at the University of Florida have developed a smart mouth guard equipped with sensors that allow it to detect
if youe grinding your teeth, tell your dentist and even help you stop doing it.
for the patient to stay home using a mouth guard equipped with sensors that could detect bruxism,
Using different types of sensors, Yoon said, it could detect dehydration or dangerous core body temperature and alert a coach to pull a player off the field.
#Warwick Q-Eye Sensor Enables Rapid Identification of Materials in Terahertz Region A new type of sensor,
when electromagnetic radiation emitted by an object is absorbed by the Q-Eye sensor, even down to the level of very small packets of quantum energy (a single photon.
and detection performance and our initial calculations indicated world-beating detector capability all this and using silicon.
Made using standard silicon processes large numbers of detector chips containing designs matched to a particular application can easily be fabricated on large (300mm) wafers with great uniformity,
This revolutionary e-cooling process is the secret to Q-Eye sensor exceptional performance, enabling fast imaging and material identification.
#DIRHA Prototype Enables People with Disabilities to use Voice as a Remote control to Access Home Devices Based on advanced voice recognition and audio signal processing technology,
and allows them to use their voice as a remote control to access services and operate a number of home devices.
For these and other applications, DIRHA uses a network of microphones placed throughout the room so it can pick up voice commands,
"The DIRHA system can be configured either through traditional microphones, or thorugh MEMS (microelectromechanical) microphones in the order of magnitude of a few millimeters, small enough to blend with the furnishings of the home.
It can be set to operate 24 hours a day, always listening and waiting for any requests from the user,
One can talk to DIRHA even at several meters from the microphones and it does need not Internet connection,
Devices consuming the energy of electromagnetic radiation, such as absorbers and sensors, play an essential role in the using
and marketing of sensor systems that enhance perception and awareness. FLIR advanced thermal imaging and threat detection systems are used for a wide variety of imaging, thermography,
along with network sensors, actuators, and other industrial machines and equipment. Moreover, the new white paper from AIS provides an in depth overview of the latest trends and developments of the new emerging technologies.
Some technology trends which are expected to have a huge impact on IIOT evolution are IPV6, sensor proliferation, cloud computing, Big data,
%Using sensors, analytics and real-time data helps industrial automation companies anticipate failures and respond more quickly to critical situations
Sensors can provide detailed real-time information about a patient, alerting medical professionals if there is a warning sign, for example high blood pressure or swelling.
But we are yet to see sensors that can pick out minor physiological fluctuations, while integrating into everyday life.
Smart textiles, which allow accurate and reliable electronic sensors to be built into everyday clothing, could be the solution.
"Circuit printing opens up a myriad of possibilities as it allows a network of sensors to be positioned precisely across the area to be monitored,
#Prototype Ultrasound Sensors Developed for New Improved Breast Screening Technique NHS breast cancer screening in England is conducted currently using X-ray mammography,
and patented a novel detection method employing pyroelectric sensors, which convert ultrasonic energy into heat,
These large-area thermal sensors should generate far fewer image artefacts than conventional piezoelectric detectors
In the new procedure, the patient's breast will be placed in a warm water bath between an ultrasound transmitter and receiver.
and the amount of energy emerging is measured using the prototype ultrasound sensor. The ultrasound transmitter array and the receiver are rotated around the breast,
and the resulting measurements are combined to produce a 3d image of breast tissue properties. Different tissue types, including those that are cancerous,
The first prototype pyroelectric sensors have been manufactured by Precision Acoustics and are currently being tested and optimised at NPL.
The plan envisages 20 planes of low-orbiting satellites connecting to small user terminals on the ground.
These terminals would act as hubs linking phones and computers. Satellite constellations, it has to be said,
This chirality means that silicon-based detectors are able to detect the spin of electrons and light,
which converts video images from a miniature video camera worn on his glasses. He can now make out the direction of white lines on a computer screen using the retinal implant.
The images are converted into electrical pulses and transmitted wirelessly to an array of electrodes attached to the retina.
The electrodes stimulate the remaining retina's remaining cells which send the information to the brain.
At present, level designs are limited by how much data can be stored in the RAM-or, strictly, a type of RAM chip called dynamic RAM (DRAM.
3d XPOINT does away with the need to use the transistors at the heart of Nand chips.
RAM's speed advantage over traditional storage has made long it the chip of choice to funnel data directly into processors.
One instance when you might want to use the new chips instead of flash would be to store operating system files that are required every time you boot up your machine.
A loop of microtubules encircles the inner plasma membrane of the terminal and anchors mitochondria. Researchers have discovered a thick band of microtubules in certain neurons in the retina that they believe acts as a transport road for mitochondria that help provide energy required for visual processing.
which store the transmitters that convey information between neurons. An intriguing new study of their subcellular structure could help explain how bipolar synaptic terminals meet such excessive energy demands.
Using cutting-edge 3d microscopy, researchers from the National Heart Lung, and Blood Institute and Yale university examined the subcellular architecture of presynaptic terminals in retinal bipolar cells of live goldfish.
Goldfish retinal bipolar cells have giant presynaptic terminals that make them especially amenable for investigation.
Unexpectedly, the team discovered a thick band of microtubules, a component of the cell's cytoskeleton,
that extended from the axon of the neuron into the synaptic terminal and then looped around the interior periphery of the terminal.
The microtubule band appeared to associate with mitochondria--organelles known for providing energy to cells--in the synaptic terminal.
and never made it to the synaptic terminal. The findings suggest that these previously unknown microtubule structures provide a"roadway"for the transport of mitochondria crucial to maintain energy supplies into the synaptic terminals of these highly active neurons associated with vision.
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#Researchers discover how opium poppies synthesize morphine From left: Peter Facchini, professor in biological sciences, Jill Hagel, research associate,
and other UC Berkeley researchers publicly debuted a system of beating human heart cells on a chip that could be used to screen for drug toxicity.
However, that heart-on-a-chip device used pre-differentiated cardiac cells to mimic adult-like tissue structure.
said Stride. hen we expose it to ultrasound that will break the shell and release the drug. ew dawn for ADCS,
The team has been able to convert the mobile phone into a sensitive E-coli or giardia detector,
#New Chip Makes Testing for Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria Faster, Easier We live in fear of uperbugs infectious bacteria that don respond to treatment by antibiotics,
Now Ph d. researcher Justin Besant and his team at the University of Toronto have designed a small and simple chip to test for antibiotic resistance in just one hour,
Their work was published this week in the international journal Lab on a Chip. Resistant bacteria arise in part because of imprecise use of antibioticshen a patient comes down with an infection,
and biomedical engineering to design a chip that concentrates bacteria in a miniscule spaceust two nanolitres in volumen order to increase the effective concentration of the starting sample.
Electrodes built directly into the chip detect the change in current as resazurin changes to resorufin. his gives us two advantages,
and resolution was lost in the process. his combination of the bad detector, blurring from the motion and radiation damage,
and scientists at Lawrence Berkeley to build a new detector called the K2 Summit, named after one of the most challenging mountain ascents in the world.
society thirst for powerful sensors is growing. Given that, few sensing techniques can match the buzz created by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS.
However, these approaches involve mechanical sensors and pumps, with needle-tipped catheters that have to be stuck under the skin
which involves shuttling tiny drops of water around on a series of small electrodes that looks like a miniature checkerboard.
#Major Step for Implantable Drug Delivery Device An implantable, microchip-based device may soon replace the injections
Earlier this month, MIT spinout Microchips Biotech partnered with a pharmaceutical giant to commercialize its wirelessly controlled, implantable,
microchip-based devices that store and release drugs inside the body over many years. Invented by Microchips Biotech cofounders Michael Cima, the David H. Koch Professor of Engineering,
and Robert Langer, the David H. Koch Institute Professor, the microchips consist of hundreds of pinhead-sized reservoirs,
each capped with a metal membrane, that store tiny doses of therapeutics or chemicals. An electric current delivered by the device removes the membrane,
and osteoporosis. Now Microchips Biotech will begin co-developing microchips with Teva Pharmaceutical, the world largest producer of generic drugs,
Apart from providing convenience, Microchips Biotech said these microchips could also improve medication-prescription adherence a surprisingly costly issue in the United states. A 2012 report published in the Annals of Internal medicine estimated that Americans who don stick to prescriptions rack up $100 billion
Microchips Biotech will continue work on its flagship product, a birth-control microchip, backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation,
Cima, who now serves on the Microchips Biotech board of directors with Langer, sees this hormone-releasing microchip as one of the first implantable rtificial organsbecause it acts as a gland. lot of the therapies are trying to chemically trick the endocrine systems Cima said. e are doing that with this artificial organ we created.
Wild ideas Inspiration for the microchips came in the late 1990s, when Langer watched a documentary on mass-producing microchips. thought to myself,
ouldn this be a great way to make a drug-delivery system??Langer said. He brought this idea to Cima,
a chip-making expert who was taken aback by its novelty. ut being out-of-this-world is not something that needs to stop anybody at MIT,
Cima adds. n fact, that should be the criterion. So in 1999, Langer, Cima, and then-graduate student John Santini Phd 9 co-founded Microchips,
and invented a prototype for their microchip that was described in a paper published that year in Nature.
This entrepreneurial collaboration was the first of many for Cima and Langer over the next decade.
For years, the technology underwent rigorous research and development at Microchips Biotech. But in 2011, Langer and Cima,
and researchers from Microchips, conducted the microchipsfirst human trials to treat osteoporosis this time with wireless capabilities.
In that study, published in a 2012 issue of Science Translational Medicine, microchips were implanted into seven elderly women,
Results indicated that the chips delivered doses comparable to injections and did so more consistently with no adverse side effects.
That study, combined with ongoing efforts in contraceptive-delivery microchips, led Cima to believe the microchips could someday,
essentially, be considered the first artificial glands that could regulate potent hormones inside the body. This may sound like a wild idea but Cima doesn think so.
The chip ends an endocrine or chemical signal instead of an electrical signal. MEMS innovations Microchips Biotech made several innovations in the microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) manufacturing process to ensure the microchips could be commercialized.
A major innovation was enabling final assembly of the microchips at room temperature with hermetic seals. Any intense heat during final assembly, with hermetic sealing, could destroy the drugs already loaded into the reservoirs
which meant common methods of welding and soldering were off-limits. To do so, Microchips Biotech modified a cold-welding ongue and grooveprocess.
This meant depositing a soft, gold alloy in patterns on the top of the chip to create tongues, and grooves on the base.
By pressing the top and base pieces together, the tongues fit into the grooves, and plastically deforms to weld the metal together. ach one of these reservoirs,
The company has also found ways to integrate electronics into the microchips to shrink down the device.
the company could refine the microchips to be even smaller, yet carry the same volume of drugs. his means making the drugs take up more volume than the electrical and other components,
providing the detection of both copy number variations (CNVS) and loss of heterozygosity (LOH) on a single chip.
researchers at MIT unveil a series of sensors, memory switches, and circuits that can be encoded in the common human gut bacterium Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron.
we built four sensors that can be encoded in the bacterium DNA that respond to a signal to switch genes on and off inside B. thetaiotaomicron,
and other UC Berkeley researchers publicly debuted a system of beating human heart cells on a chip that could be used to screen for drug toxicity.
However, that heart-on-a-chip device used pre-differentiated cardiac cells to mimic adult-like tissue structure.
In the mathematical model, the theoretical robot was equipped with sensors and a miniature microscope to measure the color of bacteria telling it where
She taps the phone's screen in a certain pattern, records a spoken phrase and walks a short distance while the phone's motion sensors measure her gait."
or using the iphone's built-in sensors to measure their symptoms. Scientists overseeing the studies say the apps could transform medical research by helping them collect information more frequently and from more people, across larger and more diverse regions,
researchers also say a smartphone's microphone, motion sensors and touchscreen can take precise readings that,
in some cases, may be more reliable than a doctor's observations. These can be correlated with other health or fitness data and even environmental conditions, such as smog levels, based on the phone's GPS locater.
each of the subjects put on an electrode-studded hat capable of analysing their brain signals. They then instructed the robot to move,
By virtue of its video camera, screen and wheels, the robot, located in an EPFL laboratory, was able to film itself as it moved
including labs-on-a-chip. The transition temperature can be controlled by varying the chemical composition of the hydrogel. y locally heating
a sensor comprising multiple tiny test sites. The chip, known as proteo, functions by attracting a faintly luminous substance found in cancer patients,
even when the cancer is at a very early stage.""We diagnosed without any errors
Nanette Byrnes, writer for the MIT Technology Review, calls this the ew food economy. y combining this information with data generated by soil sensors and weather reports,
Such investments led to the creation of water sensors and drones which help farmers, like Keith Larrabee, make effective decisions.
hen Larrabee began using such sensors, he had to walk into the fields to read each one individually process so laborious that he sometimes did it just once a week.
But now, every 15 minutes, readings from the 25 sensors are fed into a network of solar-powered information-gathering stations scattered through the orchard.
If your thermostat or air conditioning unit is constantly turned on, it would be fighting the ZEF table
what it will be like to use the iphone as a remote control for your entire home (AAPL) The first home appliances that will work with Homekit, Apple's platform for connecting all of the devices in your home,
#Scientists made a major breakthrough in 3d printed electronics that will keep you from ever drinking spoiled milk again Researchers have used 3d printing to develop a sensor that can be placed inside a carton of milk to detect
This represents a breakthrough in terms of three dimensional printing of electronic circuits. Polymers are poor conductors of electricity
The basis of this led to the production of the sensor cap for milk cartons.
The sensor functioned by detecting an increase in level of electrical signal as would be accompanied by a growth in bacterial population.
The sensor was tested on various cartons of milk, some held at room temperature and some in a refrigerator.
"The study was conducted at UC Berkeley (the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center) together with Taiwan's National Chiao tung University.
The research has been published in the journal Microsystems & Nanoengineering, in an article headed"3d printed microelectronics for integrated circuitry and passive wireless sensors. e
For the last two years, Amal Graafstra, the founder and CEO of the Seattle-based company, has sold implantable devices including near-field communication (NFC) chips, radio-frequency identification chips (RFID), biomagnets,
His chips enable him to do things like lock and unlock doors and log into his computer and password-secured websites.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved RFID chips for human implantation in 2004.
The team outfitted the animals with multi-electrode arrays in the motor and somatosensory (sense of touch) cortices to capture
So far, the Wi-fi Aware technology has been incorporated into a wireless chips from Broadcom, Intel, Marvell and Realtek."
That strategy takes advantage of new-generation cars as rolling collections of sensors to reduce congestion
and parking sensors, "will have only modest impacts.""Cities, with Moscow one of the leaders, have been testing
and sensors to speed up the parking once they get there. In congested downtowns, drivers looking for parking account for up to a third of the automobile traffic.
She taps the phone's screen in a certain pattern, records a spoken phrase and walks a short distance while the phone's motion sensors measure her gait."
or using the iphone's built-in sensors to measure their symptoms. Scientists overseeing the studies say the apps could transform medical research by helping them collect information more frequently and from more people, across larger and more diverse regions,
researchers also say a smartphone's microphone, motion sensors and touchscreen can take precise readings that,
in some cases, may be more reliable than a doctor's observations. These can be correlated with other health or fitness data and even environmental conditions, such as smog levels, based on the phone's GPS locater.
You can get all the details from the research team article, owards Scalable Binderless Electrodes: Carbon Coated Silicon Nanofiber Paper via Mg Reduction of Electrospun Sio2 Nanofibers, published in Nature Scientific Reports.
Some lithium-ion batteries with graphite anodes provide less than 600 Wh/L a thin sheet of lithium foil was used to replace the more conventional electrode material,
#The Fossil fuel energy Industry Is Now Entering Terminal Decline It time to make the call fossil fuels are finished.
Tech startup Aclima just announced a partnership with Google earth Outreach to equip Google street view cars with its mobile sensor platform.
Aclima Sensory Science system connects stationary sensors with scalable hardware and software to generate billions of data points across multiple environmental factors,
For several years, 500 connected Aclima sensors have been monitoring air quality and analyzing 500 million data points daily across a global network composed of 21 Google offices around the world.
Using Aclima science-driven sensor networks to map our indoor environmental quality is a big part of making that happen. a
#Flexible sensor lets humans detect magnetic fields The sensor on a soap bubble. IFW Dresden When it comes to navigating the world around us we have a lot more than just five senses.
or external sensor--such as a new device developed by a team of researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Solid State
The sensor is less than 2 micrometres thick and only weighs 3 grams per square metre --so light they can be laid on a soap bubble without breaking it.
The sensors are...imperceptible magneto-sensitive skin that enables proximity detection navigation and touchless control the paper's abstract reads.
The sensor on the palm of a hand (left) and crumpled into a tiny ball (right) IFW Dresden These ultra-thin magnetic field sensors readily conform to ubiquitous objects including human skin
and offer a new sense for soft robotics safety and healthcare monitoring consumer electronics and electronic skin devices.
At the moment the sensors don't provide tactile feedback to the user. Instead they are connected to an array of LEDS.
When the wearer moves the sensor close to a magnetic field the sensor is shown to be operational when the LED array lights up.
Although this might be a bit unwieldy for everyday human use it could be ideal for robotics.
The integration of magnetoelectronics with ultrathin functional elements such as solar cells light-emitting diodes transistors as well as temperature and tactile sensor arrays will enable autonomous and versatile smart systems with a multitude of sensing
while the electrodes a new composite made of silicon and platinum microbeads can be pulled in any direction.
These conduction tracks and electrodes convey electrical current to the spinal cord much as the brain does.
By providing an electrode for the microorganisms to donate their electrons to the electrons can be harvested as electricity.
The pacemaker has a sensor that detects when food is entering the stomach. It then fires low-level electrical pulses into the vagus nerve to fool the brain into thinking the stomach has no more room.
The system includes headphones and a lollipop-like device that sits on your tongue and stimulates it in time with a relaxing mixture of music and nature sounds,
which is played through earphones connected to a signal generator the size of a mobile phone. Clinical trial results suggest it can reduce tinnitus loudness by an average of about 40 per cent.
and creates a mild current to stimulate nerves in sync with the sound played through the earphones.
and the real sound being played into the headphones. In a trial at the National University of Ireland, the system was tested on 60 people who'd had tinnitus for longer than six months.
#The HEADPHONES that detect brain damage: Pioneering device tracks changes in pressure caused by injury and infection Doctors have developed a brain pressure test using a special set of headphones that can detect life-threatening head injuries and infections.
The technique involves a patient wearing the headphones with an ear plug linked to a computer.
This enables doctors to measure fluid pressure in the skull-known as intracranial pressure (ICP)- without the need for surgery or painful spinal procedures.
The headphones are set to be used in the diagnosis and treatment of conditions such as meningitis and head trauma injuries
'However, as our CCFP device does not require a patient to do anything other than wear a set of headphones with an ear plug,
Google is also working on'smart lenses'that contain a control circuit, an image capture component and an image sensor.
When the suit's microphones pick up ultrasonic reflections from objects, the arms respond by pressing down on the wearer's body
The Emotive headsets are embedded with sensors that record electrical activity along the wearer scalp, forehead and above the right ear.
These sensors measure and monitor brain waves and these patterns are converted to commands using a brain-computer interface.
'The new air vehicle could be used to transport sensors, equipment or weaponry in the future, depending upon how the technology develops.
however, they cannot play music through a device like regular earphones, and are intended instead only to engage'with real world sound.'
'Here is meant not to replace your headphones, headsets, or earbuds,'the company said.''The Here Active Listening System is designed for live listening environments,
and hardy nail polish where chips are repaired automatically. The research, carried out at the University of Bristol,
compared to eight milliseconds on LCD transparent panels. Samsung's Mirror Display technology also does need not the ambient backlight for displaying on-screen images that LCD technology does.
Elsewhere, Samsung's Transparent Display uses Real Sense 3d-rotatable viewing systems, with full HD video playback.
and a Pro version with an HDMI port and SDK tool so developers to use other devices with the Holus and come up with new uses for it.
Elsewhere, it is possible to connect the device to an Emotiv Brain Sensor to control holographic objects with your mind,
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