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It is high time that the AFib monitor is available for more users. Fitbit is focusing on bringing its AFib monitor to more users in the world, now announcing that it is adding more regions to support its latest feature via the software update for the smartwatch.
Close A new design for ultra-efficient, nano-thin piezoelectric materials could revolutionize self-powered electronics, such as wearable gadgets and medical implants like pacemakers. Researchers from the RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, have fabricated a flexible and printable energy source material, which generates a voltage difference when pressure is applied to its surface. It could pave the way for self-powering wearables or pacemakers that could be powered by heartbeats. Details of the new nano-thin piezoelectric material are reported in the journal Materials Today, January 18. (...