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09/22/2018 / By Vicki Batts

New elastic “skin-tech” wearable display may revolutionize home healthcare

Home healthcare is a booming industry – thanks, in part, to the elderly population’s steadily growing numbers. And to keep up, new technologies are being developed to make self-care more accessible and easier to understand. For those who want to take care of themselves in the comfort of their own home in the years to […]

08/23/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Engineers create a type of e-skin that restores the sense of touch for amputees using prosthetics

Amputees may soon be able to find relief from the phantom limb sensation that haunts them, stated an article in Science Daily. American researchers have created an electronic skin for prosthetic hands that can return a sense of touch to the user. Developed by engineers at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the e-skin is a layer […]

02/28/2018 / By David Williams

New self-healing “e-skin” is malleable, recyclable, making it perfect for robotics and biomedical devices

Researchers from the University of Colorado (CU) Boulder have just devised a new method of forming “electronic skin” which is said to be malleable, self-healing, and could potentially be used in the fields of robotics, biomedicine, and more. This new e-skin could serve as the basis for future basis in various engineering, medical, or scientific […]

02/11/2018 / By Rhonda Johansson

Newly created “e-skin” allows you to manipulate virtual objects without seeing or touching them

German and Austrian researchers have developed the smallest form of electronic skin to date. The e-skin device is about three micrometers thick, making it thinner than an average piece of human hair. The technology adds to the ever-growing industry of electronic devices set to merge robotics with humans. This new e-skin device can be placed […]

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