TOPIC
Health
Stories containing inventions related to Health, tracing similar ideas across companies and years through patent drawings.
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Things · Bathrooms
The Toilet Seat as a Measuring Instrument, and Eight Other Patent Ideas
A toilet that personalizes light and sound, sensors that hunt for a urine stream, a urine analyzer built into the seat, camera-based health monitoring, a sealed analytical bowl, weight estimation from the seat, a cleaner that travels around the ring, a folding toilet-table, and a toilet that changes height for the user.
Things · Clothing
When Clothing Becomes the Interface: Patents for the Future of What We Wear
Self-lacing shoes, touch-sensitive fabric, wearable airbags, heating and cooling garments, ECG shirts, haptic VR vests, inflatable jackets, OLED clothing, cable-adjusted support wear and shoes with tunable stiffness. Ten patents that turn clothing into an active interface around the body.
Things · Wearables
Adding to the Human Body: 10 Patents for Extra Limbs, Senses and Support
A chair you wear on your legs, extra arms on your back, a sixth finger, ultrasound-evoked body sensations, self-lacing shoes, haptic gloves, smart contact lenses, skin-mounted chemical sensors and a wearable airbag. Ten public patents that try to redraw the boundary of the human body.