More and more things are becoming Internet-connected every day, and now some money is getting behind the makers of smart fabric sensors. BeBop Sensors, a company that makes the sensors, just closed a ...

Scientists have developed a smart fabric embedded with sensors that can monitor the hidden health of asphalt roads in real time, in a breakthrough that could make resurfacing more sustainable, ...

This project aims at developing a flexible wireless electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring device that is easily accessible to anyone at low cost and can be used during activity like walking and running.

Roads are subject to heavy wear from traffic and environmental factors. Over the long term, these things add up to cracks and other defects in the asphalt. Micro-cracks and damage to deeper layers ...

Wearable technologies are exploding in popularity, but most of the electronic sensors that detect and transmit data from wearables are made of hard, inflexible materials that can restrict both the ...

An Apple Band, anyone? Apple has been granted a patent (number 11484264) for “fabric-based items with stretchable bands.” One of those is a wristband with built-in circuitry. In the patent, Apple says ...