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Skin Sniffing Wearable Monitors Health Through Epidermal Gas Analysis

2 weeks ago | newatlas.com | Abhimanyu Ghoshal |John Rogers

Did you know you emit a variety of gases through your skin all day long? These vapors, which include carbon dioxide, water vapor, and volatile organic compounds such as ammonia, can reveal vital information about your metabolic status, disease states, and overall health. Now, there's a wearable that can detect and analyze these for you. Researchers at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, including the prolific inventor John A.
Tiny wearable simulates a lifelike sense of touch for VR experiences

4 weeks ago | newatlas.com | Abhimanyu Ghoshal |John Rogers

Today's virtual reality games and content can be pretty immersive, but they largely miss the mark when it comes to haptic feedback. Wouldn't it be cool to 'feel' a textured object, or perceive the sensation of running your hand over rich fabric in VR? That's what researchers at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, are hoping to achieve with their new wearable.
Applied body-fluid analysis by wearable devices - Nature

Dec 4, 2024 | nature.com | Noé Brasier |Joseph Wang |Wei Gao |Can Dincer |H. Ceren Ates |Effy Vayena | +1 more

AbstractWearable sensors are a recent paradigm in healthcare, enabling continuous, decentralized, and non- or minimally invasive monitoring of health and disease. Continuous measurements yield information-rich time series of physiological data that are holistic and clinically meaningful.
7Salutes: Vietnam Veterans get long overdue honor in DC

Aug 9, 2024 | newsbreak.com | John Rogers
From lab to life: how wearable devices can improve health equity - Nature Communications

Jan 2, 2024 | nature.com | John Rogers

Medical wearables, non-invasive devices that measure physiological biomarkers, are potentially disruptive and powerful tools to promote health equity at scale. Here we describe our experiences designing, validating, and deploying wearable sensors in vulnerable patient populations to improve health outcomes. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines health equity as the “state in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health”1.
The new normal in U.S. schools is unsustainable–and inaction could cost $28 trillion - NewsBreak

Nov 3, 2023 | newsbreak.com | John Rogers

By John Rogers,1 hour ago More than three years after the pandemic closed schools across the country, the public consciousness has largely moved on, but our education system remains buffeted by urgent needs, shifting priorities, conflicting funding mandates, and deep political divisions. The new normal is anything but normal.
British Astronomical Association

Oct 30, 2023 | britastro.org | John Rogers

Jupiter coming to oppositionJupiter will be at opposition this Friday, 2023 Nov.3, at about 05h UT. With a declination of 13.7°N, it is now higher in the sky for northern-hemisphere observers than at any time since 2015. Some imagers in Europe, Japan, and North America are now achieving images of a standard that we have rarely seen from these latitudes.
British Astronomical Association

Sep 1, 2023 | britastro.org | John Rogers

Imaging the sodium cloud of IoA notable feature of the Jupiter system is a cloud of sodium atoms emitted from the satellite Io, which has always been regarded as something observable only with professional equipment. Now, BAA member Chris Hooker has produced the first amateur images of it, using just a 10-inch reflector.