Android 16 Developer Preview Brings Frequent API Updates and Privacy Enhancements
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The Android 16 Developer Preview by Google is now available, marking the beginning of more frequent API releases to drive faster innovation in apps and devices. It is the successor of Android 15, which Google released in February 2024. This major release is planned for Q2 2025, a shift to align with device launch schedules, […]
Senbiosys’ Jewelry-Like Smart Ring Aims to Make Health Monitoring More Discreet and Affordable
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Two former EPLF Ph.D. students have created Iris, a smart ring the size of a wedding band that can monitor health like a high-end smartwatch. Marketed by Senbiosys, they have already raised five times more than the initial target of 100,000 francs. In this time and age, everyone has heard about smartwatches and fitness trackers; […]
Super Sensor On A Chip can Monitor the Heart and Lungs using Sounds/Vibrations
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Daily substantial advancements are being made in the world of wearables, especially for health-related applications. Most of our fantasies around real-time, round-the-clock, non-invasive, out-of-the-way, monitoring of health parameters are now beyond dreams as researchers continue to cut away through hindrances and unlock new levels of possibilities. One of such new level of possibilities are the […]
Researchers Of RMIT University Develops Swalloable Gas Sensors That Can Improve Your Diet
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Researchers led by Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh, at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia have developed the first intestinal gas-diagnosing pill to be tested in human. During the study, which was published on January 8 in Nature Electronics, the swallowable gas sensors were tested in seven healthy participants who ate low and high-fiber diets. This ‘smart’ capsule is capable of measuring levels of Oxygen, […]
Micro-spectrometer Sensor Will Let You Check Air Quality Or Blood Sugar – Using Smartphone
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Now you can use your smartphone to check how clean the air is, measure the freshness of food or even the level of your blood sugar. This has never been so easy. All credit goes to the new spectrometer sensor which is developed at the Eindhoven University of Technology and can be easily attached to a […]
MediaTek Sensio, is a 6-in-1 biosensor module for smartphones
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Smartphones in recent times have contributed to the growth of the medical sensing industries with a major success in the usage of a smartphone camera and flash to detect heart rate. Specialized Apps installed on the phone can use the phone inbuilt camera and flash to read an individual heart rate with high accuracy but […]
Scientists Design A Two Stage Patch For Blood Glucose Testing Without Pricking The Skin
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A team of researchers from Tsinghua University in cooperation with People’s Liberation Army Air Force General Hospital, China, has produced a two-stage patch to test the blood glucose levels. They published their research paper on the open access site Science Advances. In the paper, the group describes their patch system and how it succeeds in a small sample test with volunteer human patients. In […]
iEAT – A Powerful Keychain Detector To Detect Food Allergens
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For kids and adults with food allergies, having meals from restaurants or hotels can sometimes be very risky. Even when ultimate care is taken, freshly prepared meals can accidentally become cross-contaminated with an offending food and trigger an allergic reaction. Every year many people end up in the emergency room due to food allergies. Researchers of the Harvard Medical School […]
A $20 Heart Rate Module For Health-Tech Projects
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Heart rate monitoring is a common procedure for most of health related projects. Therefore, producing sensors modules and circuit boards for such tasks will facilitate and push forward the development of new health-tech projects. Maxim Integrated, an analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits manufacturer, has developed a new module for measuring heart rate and pulse oximetry. […]
Sensor Technology for Health and Fitness Applications
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By Jon Gabay @ digikey.com: Determining the state of our health has always been a matter of finding a way to monitor and measure the body’s most basic functions. Before instrumentation, visual indicators were used that allowed us to know, for example, what our body temperature should be, what a healthy pulse is, and what an […]