Finger Wrap Uses Sweat To Provide Health Monitoring at Your Fingertips—Literally
today.ucsd.edu
A sweat-powered wearable has the potential to make continuous, personalized health monitoring as effortless as wearing a Band-Aid. UC San Diego engineers have developed an electronic finger wrap that monitors vital chemical levels—such as glucose, vitamins, and even drugs—present in the same fingertip sweat from which it derives its energy.
This is an automated archive made by the Lemmit Bot.

The original was posted on /r/science by /u/Wagamaga on 2024-09-05 08:46:57+00:00.

Original Title: Engineers have developed an electronic finger wrap that monitors vital chemical levels – such as glucose, vitamins, and even drugs – present in the same fingertip sweat from which it derives its energy. The wearer can be resting or asleep and it will still monitor levels.