{"id":88117,"date":"2019-02-23T14:02:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-23T22:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/solar-powered-e-skin-for-prosthetic-limbs"},"modified":"2019-02-23T14:02:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-23T22:02:39","slug":"solar-powered-e-skin-for-prosthetic-limbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/solar-powered-e-skin-for-prosthetic-limbs","title":{"rendered":"Solar Powered E-Skin for Prosthetic Limbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Graphene based Solar Powered E-Skin for Prosthetic Limbs\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1XqAyQ_fgZc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Recently University of Glasgow developed a Graphene based E-Skin for prosthetic limbs. The research started with making a prosthetic arm that could sense even the minutest of pressure for gripping soft objects. It eventually yielded a prosthetic limb that was also self powering.<\/p>\n<p>This was because of the development of Graphene based supercapacitors.<\/p>\n<p>Graphene is now being explored for wearable electronics and health pathes because of its flexibility and ability to pick the smallest of signals.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1XqAyQ_fgZc\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/1XqAyQ_fgZc<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently University of Glasgow developed a Graphene based E-Skin for prosthetic limbs. The research started with making a prosthetic arm that could sense even the minutest of pressure for gripping soft objects. It eventually yielded a prosthetic limb that was also self powering. This was because of the development of Graphene based supercapacitors. Graphene is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1499,1495,17,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-health","category-sustainability","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}