Science news articles about 'pressure sensors'

  • Wearable blood pressure sensor

    High blood pressure is a common risk factor for heart attacks, strokes and aneurysms, so diagnosing and ... . MIT engineers have built a wearable blood pressure sensor that can provide continuous, 24-hour ...
  • Sensor in artery measures blood pressure

    ... and for sufferers, whose blood pressure often has to be monitored over a long time until it can be regulated. This will now be made easier by a pressure sensor that is inserted in the femoral artery.
  • Sensor in artery measures blood pressure

    ... can be supplied with electricity wirelessly via coils. Implantable pressure sensors are also suitable for other applications, such as monitoring patients suffering from cardiac insufficiency. The ...
  • You just move like a mouse, or do so abnormally like a mutant mouse

    ... in a way comparable with that of monitoring humans. Every move of the animal is recorded by pressure sensors under the cage, and this information is collected for more than 24 hours. The findings are ...
  • Goodbye to batteries and power sockets

    ... by the workpieces. Solar cells supply the energy for this workpiece detector. Another example are pressure sensors which monitor the work of the vacuum gripper. In this case, the power is supplied by ...
  • Smart contact lenses

    ... -silver into a contact-lens shape, and show that it could function as a simple pressure sensor. Glaucoma, a build-up of pressure in the eye, is a leading cause of blindness worldwide. A contact lens ...
  • New implant device remotely monitors heart failure patients at Northwestern Memorial

    ... hospital efficiency by cutting back on frequent trips to the emergency room." The implanted pressure sensor is about the size of a standard paperclip. It is implanted into the subject's pulmonary ...
  • Asthma monitoring on the Web

    ... the device as a low-cost, portable spirometer built around a pressure sensor for detecting airflow. The sensor is fabricated using technology similar to that for manufacturing computer chips and is ...
  • Operate a piano pedal with the mouth

    ... position," describes the Heidelberg re-searcher his innovation. This uses a highly sensitive strength or pressure sensor, which is embed-ded in the chewing surface of a bite splint attached to the ...
  • Understanding the daily variation

    ... , the Mauna Loa Observatory (MLO) had deployed a network of pressure sensors on the Big Island in 2004. Together with MLO scientist Steve Ryan, Hamilton was able to show that the ...
  • Intelligent home environment

    ... and devices can easily be integrated into the system, such as motion detectors or pressure sensors in the mattress. The sensors automatically report their data via wireless communication to a control ...
  • Faster computers, electronic devices possible after scientists create large-area graphene on copper

    ... it to be used as a membrane material in nanoelectromechanical systems, as a sensitive pressure sensor and as a detector for chemical or biological molecules or cells. The university researchers, ...
  • Vise squad: Putting the squeeze on a crystal leads to novel electronics

    ... including nonvolatile memory (data that is not lost when power is turned off) and temperature or pressure sensors integrated into silicon-based microelectronics. One of the potentially biggest prizes ...
  • Twendy-One Nursebot Says Sit Up and Eat Your Jell-O

    ... over the age of 65 suffer from at least one chronic health condition. Wow: Lightly tapping force and pressure sensors in Twendy-One's chest tells the robot to back off. ...
  • Configure your own operating software

    ... them. For example, if he wants to include a pressure sensor in the operating software, he selects ... any time, for example to add new sensors. With conventional systems, by contrast, the client would ...

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