Sensors & Wearables

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In this knowledge hub of Medical Design Briefs, get the latest news about the medical sensors market, including wearables, resistors, ingestibles, and lab-on-a-chip technology.

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Dan Sanchez on How to Improve Extruded Components
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Improving extruded components requires careful attention to a number of factors, including dimensional tolerance, material selection, and processing. Trelleborg’s Dan Sanchez provides detailed insights into each of these considerations to help you advance your device innovations while reducing costs and speeding time to market.

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Products: Imaging
The new products and services for March 2023.
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Briefs: Software
Medical mobile applications have gained popularity during the pandemic. This article presents some guidelines for medical app development.
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R&D: Medical

Researchers have developed a breakthrough handheld biosensor that enables quick and accurate detection of oral cancer. The biosensor consists of a sensor strip similar to a glucose...

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Features: Medical
While many wearable technologies began as a way to help people improve fitness, they have evolved to take on much greater diagnostic and other medical uses.
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Features: Wearables
Much more than a medical technology trade show, MD&M West exists to improve lives through continuing education, sharing knowledge, and bringing opportunities to all.
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Products: Robotics, Automation & Control
Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) West, February 7–9, Anaheim, CA
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Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Heart failure is a progressive clinical syndrome characterized by a structural abnormality of the heart, in which the heart is unable to pump sufficient blood to meet the body’s requirements.
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R&D: Wearables

A novel wearable for infants provides reliable assessment of motor abilities during early development. The smart jumpsuit, called MAIJU (Motor Assessment of Infants with a Jumpsuit), is a...

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R&D: Medical

Researchers have developed a simple, yet effective approach for on-demand tactile sensing in minimally invasive surgery, overcoming a key limitation — the inability of surgeons to feel tissues during an...

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From the Editor: Wearables
From the Editor
NuraLogix unveiled its Anura™ Telehealth platform at CES 2023.
Global Innovations: Nanotechnology
Researchers have developed a transparent temperature sensor capable of precisely and quickly measuring temperature changes caused by light.
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Supplements: Test & Measurement
Learn about the medical manufacturers and cutting-edge applications that stood out in 2022.
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INSIDER: Sensors/Data Acquisition

A battery-free, pill-shaped ingestible biosensing system provides continuous monitoring in the intestinal environment. Gut metabolites can be monitored in real time, which...

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INSIDER: Wearables

Polymer scientists have developed a starch-based polymer that makes it possible to create a fully biodegradable soft material for sensors. The resulting ‘Advanced Scalable Supersoft Elastic...

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INSIDER: Wearables

The world’s first smart vaccine device delivers the COVID-19 vaccine and measures its efficacy through monitoring the body’s associated response.

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News: Wearables

Intricon, a developer and manufacturer of medical devices powered by smart miniaturized electronics, has launched a new Biosensors Center of Excellence (CoE)....

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Briefs: Energy
The next step in wearables is to shrink the size of the devices while offering more comfortable shapes and additional features and wireless communications capabilities.
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Products: Sensors/Data Acquisition
See the new products and services for January 2023.
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Briefs: Medical
Parkinson's Disease is the fastest-growing neurodegenerative condition in the world and affects 600,000 Americans yearly at a cost of $20 billion to the U.S. healthcare system.
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Briefs: Medical
Technology developed by researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine can change skin tissue into blood vessels and nerve cells.
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R&D: Medical
Researchers have developed a device to noninvasively measure cervical nerve activity in humans.
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R&D: Materials
Researchers have designed a transparent polymer film that conducts electricity as effectively as other commonly used materials, while also being flexible and easy to use at an industrial scale.
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R&D: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Researchers have demonstrated a new technique for directly printing electronic circuits onto curved and corrugated surfaces.
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R&D: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Using a simple set of magnets, researchers have devised a sophisticated way to monitor muscle movements.
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R&D: Medical
Researchers demonstrate that graphene can greatly improve electrical circuits required for wearable and flexible electronics such as smart health patches and other flexible devices.
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R&D: Electronics & Computers
A fully rubbery stretchable diode maintains performance.
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News: Regulations/Standards

Movano Health, Pleasanton, CA, has announced successful preliminary results of its pivotal hypoxia trial, which was completed in conjunction with the...

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INSIDER: Wearables

Researchers have developed an Internet of Things (IoT) smart mask, integrating an ultrathin nanocomposite sponge structure-based soundwave sensor. It can detect and classify...

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INSIDER: Wearables

The next generation of wearable computing technology — for health and wellness, social interaction, and myriad other applications — will be even closer to the wearer than a watch or...

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Inside Story

Rapid Precision Prototyping Program Speeds Medtech Product Development

Rapid prototyping technologies play an important role in supporting new product development (NPD) by companies that are working to bring novel and innovative products to market. But in advanced industries where products often make use of multiple technologies, and where meeting a part’s exacting tolerances is essential, speed without precision is rarely enough. In such advanced manufacturing—including the medical device and surgical robotics industries — the ability to produce high-precision prototypes early in the development cycle can be critical for meeting design expectations and bringing finished products to market efficiently.

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