Wireless Sensor Startup Wins UC San Diego $80K Entrepreneur Challenge (2 of 3) (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

Wireless Sensor Startup Wins UC San Diego $80K Entrepreneur Challenge (2 of 3)

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UC San Diego electrical engineering graduate student Yu Mike Chi, and UC San Diego bioengineering professor Gert Cauwenberghs are developing wireless sensors (pictured) that monitor your heart even though they do not actually touch your skin. The sensors record "biopotentials" -- tiny voltage signals that appear on the skin surface. Biopotentials emanate from electrically active cells, such as neurons and cardiac cells, and propagate through the conductive media of the human body.

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UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering / Daniel Kane

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