Wearables
A global challenge to find new technologies that use AI to transform the lives of people with dementia has announced its five finalists. They include AI glasses to help people navigate their environment and a smartwatch that learns daily routines. The prize is rewarding the creation of new assistive technologies that use AI to help [...]
Researchers have developed a laser-based device that can be placed on the head to non-invasively monitor changes in brain blood flow and volume. The new device could one day help save lives by offering a direct and simple way to assess stroke risk based on physiological markers rather than indirect markers like lifestyle factors. Strokes [...]
Wearable sensors to examine eye movement to assess brain disorders or damage to the brain have been developed by a team of engineers. Many brain diseases and problems show up as eye symptoms, often before other symptoms appear. Eyes are an extension of the brain and can provide early warning signs of brain-related disorders and information [...]
Researchers have developed a prototype device that can harvest energy from body heat and turn it into electricity that can be used to power small electronics. Unlike predecessors, however, the device is also resilient — still functioning after being pierced several times and then stretched 2,000 times. Traditionally, devices that use heat to generate electricity [...]
Technology which uses harmless light waves to measure activity in babies’ brains has provided the most complete picture to date of brain functions outside a conventional, restrictive brain scanner. The wearable brain imaging headgear, which was developed in collaboration with UCL spin-out Gowerlabs, found unexpected activity in the prefrontal cortex, an area of the brain [...]
A sweat-powered wearable has the potential to make continuous, personalised health monitoring as effortless as wearing a plaster, new research has found. Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed an electronic finger wrap that monitors vital chemical levels—such as glucose, vitamins, and even drugs—found in sweat. The device, which wraps snugly around [...]
Wearable, long-term continuous heart monitors helped identify 52 per cent more cases of atrial fibrillation compared to usual care, but that did not lead to a reduction in hospitalisations due to stroke, according to a new study. The findings provide inconclusive data about whether atrial fibrillation screening lowers stroke rates. The Covid pandemic led to [...]
A wearable, non-invasive device can measure activity in human cervical nerves in clinical settings and could help shed light on the involuntary nervous system’s role in sepsis, PTSD and other inflammatory conditions. The device records what the UC San Diego research team calls Autonomic Neurography (ANG), neural activity from the human vagus and carotid sinus [...]
A new brainwave analysis solution is aiming to transform cannabis and mental health research by analysing the effects of different medicines on the brain. Understanding the effects of medicine on an individual is usually based on qualitative research in the form of patient questionnaires. While quantitative brainwave analysis is commonly used in neurology research, it [...]
Consumer wearables that measure heart rate and physical activity provide similar clinical value to standard hospital tests for atrial fibrillation (AF) and heart failure, new research has found. The study, published in Nature Medicine, examined whether a commercially-available fitness tracker and smartphone could continuously monitor the response to medications, and provide clinical information similar to [...]
