Wearables
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DigiKey Announces Winners of Smart Home & Wearables Project Contest 2025 with Circuit Digest THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn., USA – DigiKey, the global distribution leader of electronic components and automation products, announces the winners of its Smart Home & Wearables Project Design Contest 2025 with Circuit Digest. Engineers, makers, students and hobbyists across India were invited to submit their innovative project ideas for a chance to win prizes worth ₹7,00,000 and free… |
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Mave Health Raises $2.1 Mn to Bring Brain Stimulation Headsets to Market Mave Health, a Bengaluru-based healthtech startup, raised $2.1 Mn in a seed round led by Blume Ventures. Founded in 2023 by Dhawal Jain, Jai Sharma, and Aman Kumar, the company makes headsets based on transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) that help with focus, mood, and stress regulation. The raised capital is to go towards ramping up their manufacturing capabilities and launching… |
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Ultra-Low-Power Neuromorphic Chip Enables Always-On Voice Detection A new neuromorphic chip has shown it can perform continuous voice activity detection while using extremely low power, addressing a major challenge in devices that rely on batteries or operate at the edge of a network. The chip identifies human speech with very fast response times by running neural network calculations in the analog domain. This method keeps voice detection running without… |
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CircuitDigest’s Smart Home & Wearables Project Contest 2025 Is Now Open CircuitDigest’s Smart Home & Wearables Project Contest 2025, sponsored by DigiKey, is now live. The theme of this year’s contest is easy to infer from the title. We are shifting the focus from last year’s well-received IoT and Edge AI Design Contest to projects that transform everyday living with intelligence, safety, and connectivity. Engineers, makers, students, and… |
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Government Relaxes SEZ Rules for Semiconductor and Electronic Component Factories The Government of India has made amendments to the Special Economic Zones (SEZ) rules. This aims to promote the manufacturing of semiconductors and electronic components. The changes reduce the minimum land requirement for establishing factories in SEZs from 50 hectares to 10 hectares. The norms that are relaxed span over semiconductors, display module sub-assemblies, printed circuit… |
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Starfish-Inspired AI Heart Monitor Tracks Your Heart with 90% Accuracy Researchers at the University of Missouri have created a new heart monitor that sticks to the body with five arms, just like how a starfish holds onto things with its legs. The team, led by Sicheng Chen and Zheng Yan, designed this wearable heart monitor that is shaped like a starfish. Each of the five arms of the device has built-in sensors that pick up both the electrical and… |
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Texas Instruments Launches MSPM0C1104: Ultra-Compact MCU for Compact Electronics Texas Instruments has introduced the smallest microcontroller (MCU), the MSPM0C1104, and it’s about the size of 1.38mm². Despite its tiny size, this little chip is packed with power, making it perfect for super-compact devices like medical wearables, earbuds, and stylus pens. This tiny MCU is 38% smaller than other compact options, giving engineers more room to add… |
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Bluetooth DIY Earbud Inside a Pistachio Shell Ever thought of turning a pistachio into a working AirPod? Well, a creative Penguin DIY just fixed earbuds into pistachio shell, by dismantling the earbuds, reducing their size, and fixing all the components into the same miniaturized board that will fit into a pistachio shell. The process wasn’t easy. He had to meticulously remove, resize the board, and solder each tiny part onto the… |
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Nexperia's New DC-DC Converters Deliver High Efficiency and Flexibility for Wearables, IIoT, and Automotive Systems Nexperia introduced a new line of step-down DC-DC converters for battery-operated devices that are more flexible and efficient. These converters work with both portable and fixed battery-powered devices. The NEX30606 offers 16 different output voltages ranging from 1.8 V to 5.0 V, enabling its high efficiency and accuracy. These are… |
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Murata’s Type 1SC-NTN Module with Skylo FCC & CE L-Band Certification for Advanced IoT Applications Murata has released the new module, Type 1SC-NTN, which has received Skylo FCC and CE L-band global certifications. It is compatible with both cellular and satellite networks, enabling worldwide connectivity. The module seamlessly connects to satellites via Skylo’s network, allowing connectivity even in remote areas where signals are unavailable. … |
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STMicroelectronics and Qualcomm Launch New IoT Module Combining Qualcomm Multiprotocol SoC with STM32 Ecosystem STMicroelectronics, together with Qualcomm Technologies, is introduced advanced ST67W611M1 IoT module, which integrate Qualcomm’s QCC743 multiprotocol connectivity system-on-chip (SoC) with ST’s versatile STM32 microcontroller ecosystem. Designed for a wide range of IoT applications, including smart homes, industrial sensors, and wearables. The ST67W611M1 IoT module is made for seamless… |
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TinyWatch S3 Yet Another Opersource Smartwatch to Play with Maker and and YouTuber Seon Rozenblum aka Unexpected Maker has just launched his new open-source smartwatch kit called the Tinywatch S3. We have seen many such smartwatch projects in the past and we have even made our own esp32 based smartwatch a year back. The watch kit comes with some impressive specs, it is powered by an ESP32-S3 Pico SoC featuring two 32-bit Tensilica Xtensa LX7… |
