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Sensor Technologies
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A shirt with not a single sensor. The anatomy of a fabric that hears
At ETH Zurich, engineers wove a 130-micrometre glass strand into an ordinary T-shirt and turned it into a sound sensor — without a single transistor. The fabric recognises touch, hand gestures and the rhythm of breathing.
2026-09-01
MATERIALS ENGINEERING
A sensor that prints like a newspaper. The anatomy of a billion nanoparticles under the skin
Let's take it in hand. It is invisible to the naked eye and has a diameter of 200 nanometers. It has four layers inside, each representing a separate scientific breakthrough. An inkjet printer instead of an analytical laboratory. A sensor from Caltech that detects one molecule in a billion.
2026-08-07