Those of us obsessed with finished goods can forget that Samsung is one of the world's powers in microprocessors. The Korean giant announced this week a new sensor chip, the BioProcessor (part number S3FBP5A, for those of you keeping score at home), that promises to measure heart rate and rhythm, skin temperature, body fat, and stress level. Samsung says the chip is in … [Read more...]
Tattoos for Healthy Living
Tattoos, however cool, are not usually associated with health, but Austin-based tech development company Chaotic Moon Studios is looking to change that with TechTats. The biowearable has an elegant steampunk look, with all the circuitry operational. It can track the wearer’s biometric data via an Atiny85 microcontroller and electro conductive paint, and download the data to … [Read more...]
Printed Ears, Biosensor Patches, Better Touchscreens: FlexTech 2014 Conference Report
We spent most of last week at the Flexible Electronics 2014 conference in Phoenix. This was an extremely technical conference, all about hardware and componentry and not even a tiny bit about consumer-level products. (More than a couple of speakers talked dismissively of the current state of consumer wearables, saying "everyone has one.") If you wanted to know about substrates, … [Read more...]