People suffering from hand amputations go through daily life difficulties, often resulting in lifelong employment of prosthetic services or hands.
An e-glove, or electronic glove, designed by researchers at Purdue University can be used over a prosthetic hand to offer human-akin warmth, softness, sensory perception, and appearance, such as the capability of sensing temperature, pressure, and hydration. The tech is posted in NPG Asia Materials.
While a traditional prosthetic hand assists get back mobility, the new e-glove enhances the tech by providing the realistic human hand-akin functions in everyday life roles and activities, with the ability to enhance their wellbeing and mental health by assisting them amalgamate more naturally into social contexts.
The e-glove employs miniaturized silicon-based circuit chips and flexible, thin electronic sensors on the commercially accessible nitrile glove. The e-glove is linked to a specially developed wristwatch, permitting for remote transmission to the consumer for post-info processing and real-time showcase of sensory info. Chi Hwan Lee operated on the designing of the e-glove tech.
Speaking of such tech, over the last decade, a primary trend in electronics has been the growth of displays, sensors, and smart devices which are flawlessly added onto the human body. Most of these wearable devices are connected singularly to a person’s handset and transfer all info via Wi-Fi signals or Bluetooth. But as users wear rising numbers of wearable hardware, and as the info they transfer elevates in sophistication, more ground-breaking connection techniques are being developed.
Now, scientists from the NUS (National University of Singapore) have created a fully new method for wearable machines to interconnect. They added conductive textiles into clothing to animatedly link various wearable devices at once. This sensor network permits machines to transfer info with 1,000 times stronger signal as compared to conventional methods, indicating the battery life of all machines is improved dramatically.
