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For years, smartwatch makers have promised to make our wrists the next frontier in health monitoring. Heart rate, ECGs, blood oxygen, sleep tracking, and body temperature have all found their way into modern wearables. Blood sugar is widely expected to be next

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The National University Hospital uses smartwatches for vital signs monitoring, with data fed into the hospital’s electronic medical records system

If you’ve ever been hooked up to a wearable machine at a doctor’s office, then you’re familiar with the electrodes that are attached to your body to monitor its electrical signals. The problem with these prefabricated metal-based or hydrogel electrodes is that they don’t always stay in place during movement, for long periods or on…

The use of sleep tracking devices is exploding, with nearly half of U.S. adults saying they’ve used a smartwatch, app or other device to monitor their sleep — up from 35% in 2023, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. 

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For doctors, this raises a difficult question: how can they record something that is not happening during an examination? A standard electrocardiogram (ECG) shows the heart’s activity only at a specific moment, while even longer-term monitoring does not always coincide with less frequent episodes of heart rhythm disorders. As a result, some arrhythmias, particularly short…

Flexible organic eutectogel transistors arranged in a complete thread-based circuit. The free-form circuits can easily conform to body contours to monitor health and movement. Photo: Wenxin Zeng

What new methods can be used for plants to monitor their health? This is what a recent study published in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated using “wearable” technology for plants to monitor their health. This study has the potential to develop new technologies to monitor plant…