Sentences with phrase «in body sensors»

Taking inspiration from kirigami helps make superstrong graphene flexible enough to use in body sensors or flexible TV screens

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The researchers are now working on miniaturizing the motes further, discover more biocompatible materials to package them in so they can last in the body longer, and incorporate other sensors into them.

The tiny sensors, which consist of infrared light - emitting diodes (LEDs) coupled with a sensitive light detector, measure infinitesimal gradations in light in human tissue, due to changing blood volume in the microvasculature as blood circulates through the body — a process that follows in rhythm with the beating of the heart.

«You ingest a sensor that ties to a therapy, and then it tracks the compliance of the drug in the body,» Artiman's Wilcove explains.

Schilowitz, an expert in the workings of video technology, had investigated, and he had come back to Jannard with the bad news: Though every element of this hypothetical camera, from the body to the software, would be tough to develop, the sensor — the light - sensitive chip that replaces film in capturing an image — was a doozy.

There is also a pill that contains a sensor to measure temperature, pressures and pH levels inside the body, as well as an eco-friendly printed battery that can be used in electronic greeting cards and interactive packaging and then thrown away safely.

In 2013, the iPhone maker acquired PrimeSense, a company that developed sensors for Microsoft's Kinect, a camera system that scanned people's bodies so people could play Xbox games using body movements.

While such a device sounds familiar to iRhytm's Zio patch, the patent suggests Apple is looking more broadly into the development of an ecosystem of products that would be anchored by a single wearable platform device (likely wrist - worn), and augmented through various hardware sensors that could live in, on, or around the body and communicate with the primary device.

However, analysts were disappointed that the watch is missing a key element seen as vital in emerging smartwatch technology: It lacks biometric sensors that could be used to monitor heart rate, respiration and other body functions deployed in other wearable fitness devices.

As the load cells contain no moving parts and the ceramic sensor is not in contact with the load cell body, the load cells tolerate very high overloads, sideloads and torsion.

As the load cells contain no moving parts and the ceramic sensor is not in contact with the load cell body, it tolerates very high overloads, sideloads, and torsion (up to 1000 % of rated load cell capacity).

Because the brain can't distinguish between what the body is experiencing in reality and what it's seeing through the drone's sensors, the pilots, for a moment, experience that most ancient human desire: to fly.

Interestingly, just days before the NFL's decision to suspend the use of impact sensors was announced, my local paper, The Boston Globe, came out with a powerful editorial in which it urged college, high school, and recreational leagues in contact and collision sports to consider mandating use of impact sensors, or, at the very least, experimenting with the technology, to alert the sideline personnel to hits that might cause concussion, and to track data on repetitive head impacts, which, a growing body of peer - reviewed evidence suggests, may result, over time, in just as much, if not more, damage to an athlete's brain, as a single concussive blow, and may even predispose an athlete to concussion.

In a sleep study, sensors are placed at a few spots on the child's body with a mild adhesive or tape.

He envisions a future in which «biobots» — bugs with wires that protrude from their bodies and connect to control devices and sensors — serve as rescue teams, listening for cries of help.

* Communication with body sensors: for communication with low - power sensors used in the body, cryptographic methods must be used for the authentication of devices and the distribution of the key.

Dutch research organisation IMEC, based in Eindhoven, has developed a wireless body - area network (BAN)-- dubbed the Human + + BAN — that converts the firm's ultra-low-power electrocardiogram sensors into wireless nodes that transmit data to the...

The innovative transdermal sensor is a small device that attaches to the body to analyse electrolytes in sweat, with bluetooth technology used to send the data back to a smartphone — allowing the user to rehydrate properly and maintain optimum performance.

«With our knowledge of this delicate mechanism in yeast we can now focus on finding new sensors in different organelles and species which monitor and control the production of unsaturated fatty acids and cholesterol in our body.»

And the cells in our body differ from one another — serving as neurons, white blood cells, smell sensors, and so on — largely because they activate different sets of genes and thus produce different mixtures of proteins.

Researchers at Tohoku University have succeeded in developing a sensor for the living body that can detect the bio-magnetic field with high sensitivity and high resolution.

Bonarini's team initially experimented with wired connections to sensors attached to their bodies, but players found they got in the way.

Oxygen sensors in the body measure the concentration of oxygen in the cells.

The most important oxygen sensor in the body is a protein named hypoxia - inducible factor, HIF for short, which is activated when oxygen levels dip.

«Causing inflammation to run out of fuel: Researchers demonstrate that an oxygen sensor in the body reduces inflammation.»

As new sensors are developed, these body area networks might even turn into the human equivalent of General Motors OnStar vehicle maintenance services that drivers use to proactively inform them of the need for maintenance and to call for help when lost or in an accident.

Like a smart sensor that adjusts the lighting in each room and a home's overall temperature, a protein that governs the making of other proteins in the cell also appears capable of controlling fat levels in the body.

Along with his colleagues, he used the new technology of «biologgers» (miniature sensors attached to computer chips and implanted into the aardvarks by wildlife veterinarians), to study the activity patterns and body temperatures of aardvarks living in the Kalahari.

Theoretically, any of a variety of sensors on a person's body — from cameras to infrared, ultrasound, or laser rangefinders — could convey information about what is surrounding or approaching the person in the real world to a direct brain stimulator that gives that person useful input to guide their actions.

By understanding how CNT arrays are created, designers and engineers can better incorporate the highly adaptable material into devices and products such as baseball bats, aerospace wiring, combat body armor, computer logic components and micro sensors used in biomedical applications.

Three innovative sensor systems have been developed to measure tenderness, water bonding and activity, bacterial contamination, and the detection of foreign bodies in meat products.

Poon believes this discovery will spawn a new generation of programmable microimplants — sensors to monitor vital functions deep inside the body; electrostimulators to change neural signals in the brain; and drug delivery systems to apply medicines directly to affected areas.

But scientists wanted to know what happened in a real hunt, so they implanted temperature and movement sensors into six roaming cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus, pictured) in central Namibia and tracked their body temperature and activity for 7 months.

Part of the problem is that magnetic fields can pass through biological tissues without being altered, so the sensors could, in theory, be located in any part of the body.

The sensors, which the researchers have already shrunk to a 1 millimeter cube — about the size of a large grain of sand — contain a piezoelectric crystal that converts ultrasound vibrations from outside the body into electricity to power a tiny, on - board transistor that is in contact with a nerve or muscle fiber.

A head - mounted display connected to a video camera, auditory pickup, and other sensors in the robot would let such patients virtually move about and experience the world, even though their physical bodies are immobile.

It can range from ordinary personal computers controlled by a mouse where house buyers can «walk» through a property on an estate agent's computer, to supercomputers simulating total immersion in an imaginary world, with every move of the participant's body picked up by sensors, and with sound and tactile effects to enhance the experience.

University of California, Berkeley engineers have built the first dust - sized, wireless sensors that can be implanted in the body, bringing closer the day when a Fitbit - like device could monitor internal nerves, muscles or organs in real time.

Conventional tactile sensors that are available today are typically rigid and in solid - state form, restricting various natural body movements when used and may also be subjected to plastic deformation and failure when pressure is exerted, resulting in compromises in conformability, durability and overall robustness.

Other researchers and government organizations elsewhere in the world are also turning to sensors to learn more about the bodies of water in their care.

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Online, on paper, on TV, on social media, and slamming into us as they run down the street in sweaty lycra, we are surrounded by grinning, toned bodies weighed down by sensor - rich bracelets tracking pulse, steps, stress, sleep... Start - ups assure us that, in exchange for a simple spit sample, they can lay bare our genetic histories and futures with ancestry tests and detailed breakdowns of our health risks.

Scientists have started shrinking sensors from millimeters or microns in size to the nanometer scale, small enough to circulate within living bodies and to mix directly into construction materials.

The MRI sensor, made of two forms of silicone, can be shaped into cylinders of different sizes and implanted in the body.

ASTRONAUTS will soon be able to stay fit thanks to a body tracking camera system built into Microsoft's Kinect gaming sensor, which helps calculate their weight in zero gravity.

This is the first MRI sensor of any kind that can be left in the body for extended periods of time — so far, up to four weeks, in testing with rats.

That may not be so far away — a team of researchers at KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea has developed a flexible, wearable 20 mm x 20 mm polymer sensor that can directly measure the degree and occurrence on the skin of goose bumps (technically known as «piloerection»), which is caused by sudden changes in body temperature or emotional states.

Finally, we are in the midst of developing real - time, reagentless phosphorus sensors using advanced materials that could end up being major game changers for people who need to monitor phosphorus in water bodies around the world.»

The Canadian Space Agency has also delivered its instrument: the Fine Guidance Sensor / Near InfraRed Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (FGS / NIRISS) that will also take high - quality images of other bodies in space.

Scientists studying mice found that fat in the bloodstream interferes with the body's sugar sensors so that cells no longer know when to produce insulinANCHOR.