In their quest to develop materials that can greatly enhance human health and longevity ... parameters such as pH and temperature in the body. And it can deliver therapy based on the measurement ...

From smartwatches, and fitness trackers to medical sensors that can be worn on the body, wearables are ... a gel polymer electrode-based triboelectric nanogenerator (GPE-TENG).

A triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) certainly sounds like the sort of thing you’d need to graduate from Starfleet Engineering to put together, but it actually operates on the same principle ...