Tracking health is no sweat with new device
Wearable electronic analyzes chemicals in perspiration
TECH MERGER A new health tracker can analyze chemicals in sweat by combining flexible sensors with a traditional electronic circuit board.
W. Gao et al/ Nature 2016
Fitness trackers just got an upgrade.
A new electronic health-monitoring device can sense a person’s temperature, analyze chemicals in a drop of sweat, and send the data wirelessly to a smartphone app — all in a package about the size of a few postage stamps.