Tech Briefs Magazine - November 2021 - 30

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2D Materials Origami:
The Tiniest Nanochips for
Future Computation
Manoj Tripathi and Frank
Lee, University of Sussex,
United Kingdom and
James G. McHugh,
Loughborough University,
United Kingdom
Stretchable 2D materials were used to create nanochips that
can accommodate millions of transistors in a millimeter-square
area. These hybrid surfaces are a key step forward towards
introducing more chips inside a device.
https://contest.techbriefs.com/2021/entries/11335
Early Warning Saves Lives
Halit Kaplan and Tarik Ozkul,
FatigPro Sensor Co., Istanbul,
Turkey
The FatigPro sensor detects met -
FREETOUCH
Darren David, Suzanne Hitchcock, Joe Kotas, Josh Wagoner,
Stephan Winokur, and Julie Yamato
Freetouch
San Francisco, CA
T
he COVID-19 pandemic has created a new touch-averse
customer segment concerned about the safety of shared
touchscreens and kiosks. In 2020, over 7 million public-facing
touchscreens were impacted by concerns about pathogen
transmission from shared surfaces. This is a small subset of the
85 million connected displays currently deployed globally with
the potential for touchless interactivity.
With increasing rates of COVID-19 transmission, shared
touchscreens are an ongoing health and safety concern. There
is a critical need for an immediate solution to enable the safe
use of existing shared displays in nearly every major industry
segment. This includes banking, financial, and point-of-sale
kiosks; retail displays; ticketing and payment stations; wayfinding;
hospitality; healthcare environments; museums; and
attractions.
Freetouch lets anyone safely interact with public displays via
the one screen they're comfortable touching: their own smartphone.
Freetouch turns a smartphone into a touchscreen remote
control. End users simply snap a digital QR code to instantly
connect to a kiosk, with no app download or registration
required.
A highly responsive and intuitive interface lets users click,
drag, scroll, and perform multi-touch gestures safely on their
own device to interact with touchscreen applications. All interactions
are secure and anonymous.
The controller software can be installed on any PC with
Internet connectivity - no additional hardware is required.
For more information, visit
https://contest.techbriefs.com/2021/entries/10866
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al fatigue and issues an early
warning before catastrophic failure.
It does not need electricity to
work and hundreds of the sensors
can be placed at critical points
and left there for decades.
https://contest.techbriefs.com/2021/entries/11061
High-Performance
Silicone-Based Material
Steven Kim, Johnny Park,
Tae-Seung Lee, Youngno
Lee, BK Park, Hugh Kim,
Minji Jeong, Lucas Lee,
and Jayden Cho, Dow
Chemical Company,
South Korea
DOWSIL™ VE-8001 Flexible Silicone Adhesive enables
break through foldable consumer display devices. The adhesive
is based on thermal curing and provides stable mechanical
properties after repeated dynamic and static folding.
https://contest.techbriefs.com/2021/entries/11142
Zero Energy Development
Niels Hokke, Suryansh
Sharma, Sujay Narayana,
R.R. Venkatesha Prasad,
and Josine van der Velde,
Zero Energy Development,
Delft, Netherlands
Zero Energy devices are
self-sustainable and need no batteries or wires to operate. The
devices are powered by harvesting the ambient energy from
their surroundings. The IoT sensors last forever, saving money
and time by avoiding the maintenance of batteries or building
wired systems.
https://contest.techbriefs.com/2021/entries/11319
Tech Briefs, November 2021

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