Motion Capture. Display Tech. Increasing Use of Hardware hacks. Smart Sutures That Detect Infections. Stitches that sense: New smart sutures use ultrathin silicon sensors to measure temperature at a wound site. Surgical sutures are mindless threads no more. Researchers have now coated them with sensors that could monitor wounds and speed up healing. The electronic sutures, which contain ultrathin silicon sensors integrated on polymer or silk strips, can be threaded through needles, and in animal tests researchers were able to lace them through skin, pull them tight, and knot them without degrading the devices. The sutures can precisely measure temperature—elevated temperatures indicate infection—and deliver heat to a wound site, which is known to aid healing. And John Rogers, professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and inventor of the smart sutures, imagines that they could also be laden with devices that provide electrical stimulation to heal wounds.
They have built two types of temperature sensors on the sutures. Microthrusters-could-propel-small-satellites. Boaz Almog “levitates” a superconductor. Aerofex - Taking Flight. Star Wars hover bike rides into reality from the Mojave Desert. Hover 'Bike' Flies on Pilot's Intuition | Video. Hands-on with the Electric Imp at Maker Faire (video) Yesterday at Maker Faire Bay Area 2012 we visited the Electric Imp booth to chat with the startup's founders and get some hands-on time with the tiny wireless computer.
What is the Electric Imp? It's a module containing an ARM Cortex M3 SoC with embedded WiFi that's built into an SD card form factor. While the device looks just like and SD card, it's not pin-compatible with the standard -- the idea is to leverage a reliable and affordable connector for the Electric Imp. The module is not very useful on its own -- it only comes to life when inserted into one of several boards, which provide the Electric Imp with power and access to the real world. In turn the device gives these boards a brain and an Internet connection. We talked with CEO Hugo Fiennes (formerly with Apple) about the past, present and future of the Electric Imp so hit the break to read more and to watch our hands-on video.
Electric Imp hands-on See all photos 18 Photos What can you do with the Electric Imp? Comments. Introducing Xi3 Architecture. Meraki. SETi | UV Light Sources | Sensor Electronic Technology, Inc.