Credit: Spectrum
A 13-year-old in Oregon designed sensor bandages using an inkjet cartridge.
Anushka Naiknaware has developed a sensor “to monitor the moisture around a wound” to prevent the removing of bandages, which impedes the healing process, reported Spectrum. Using an empty inkjet cartridge, she filled it with “conductive ink” and used this to “print her sensors on bandages”, and then designed a monitor for the patient to wear on their wrist, so that data could be collected from the sensors.
Naiknaware was awarded “the Lego Education Builder Award” which is one of two of the prizes awarded for “the best solutions to difficult engineering challenges”.