Beyond the Stretch of the Imagination

Research from the Department of Life Science and Systems Engineering at the Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan, reveals a dielectric elastomer that is made into a stretch sensor to measure body joint motions and plays a role in future wearables. The researchers, Nitin Kumar Singh, Kazuto Takashima, and Tomohiro Shibata, also discuss that a basic calibration technique integrated with microelectronics, used with these type of sensors, can easily capture motion and can also be paired with a mobile application, which is capable of visualizing the recorded 3D movement in real time domain, thus having the potential to be used in wearables.