Swiss Startup Develops Wearable Sensor To Harvest Energy From Human Body
Researchers at the ETH spin-off Mithras Technology have developed wearable thermoelectric generator (TEG) sensors that can harvest energy from the wearer’s own body.
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The Best Heart Rate Tracking Watches and Chest Straps for 2021
For an avid athlete, it’s important to have reliable data in order to improve performance. There are numerous wearable devices in the market that...
Flytta Smartwatch: A New Approach to Parkinson’s Care
Parkinson’s is a progressive neurodegenerative disease, characterized by both motor (tremor, rigidity, bradykinesia, postural instability) and non-motor symptoms such as depression, sleep disorder, dementia,...
Germany’s Public Health Authority Launches Smartwatch App to Monitor Covid-19 Spread
Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the German federal government agency and research institute responsible for disease control and prevention, announced that it has launched a...
Fitbit Adds Blood Oxygen Monitoring (SPO2) in its Versa, Charge, and Ionic Device
If you own a Fitbit Charge 3, Ionic, Versa, Versa Lite, or Versa 2, you are very likely seeing blood oxygen saturation data appear...
Northwestern University and Google Team Up to Use AI to Detect Lung Cancer Earlier
Lung cancer kills 160,000 people in the U.S. every year and the global death toll from the disease is around 2 million. Lung cancer...