University of Huddersfield

The Sense Glucose Earring would pierce the earlobe and pulse high-frequency radio waves through the surrounding tissue as a way of measuring blood sugar levels

Diabetes

Glucose earring concept imagines blood sugar tracking via the earlobe

An imaginative new concept for diabetes management is a student-designed earring that tracks blood glucose levels via the earlobe. The creator hopes it can one day help children with the condition more discretely manage their condition.

Trains equipped with Tracksure sensors can detect under-track voids

Science

Tech turns trains into track inspectors

If you're trying to monitor railways for wear and tear, why not just use something that's already on the tracks all the time … trains? That's the idea behind the Tracksure system, which looks for trouble using an inexpensive sensor that can be easily added to locomotives.

Numerous sensors would be used at each location, communicating with one another to form a network going down the track toward the crossing

Good Thinking

Vibrating railway tracks could power wireless warning sensors

Typically, at controlled railway crossings, hard-wired sensors are used to detect when trains are coming. Now, however, researchers at Britain's University of Huddersfield are creating tiny wireless sensors that are powered by vibrations in the rails themselves.

A new device simulates the way in which the gastrointestinal tract absorbs orally-administered drugs (Image: Shutterstock)

Body & Mind

Gut simulator could bring down the costs of drug development

A scientist has developed a "gut simulator," that could make the testing of drugs quicker and cheaper. This could in turn lead to more effective, less expensive medications.

Iota was designed as a final-year project at the UK's University of Huddersfield

Good Thinking

Iota aims to make the toilet smaller, more efficient

Gareth Humphreys and Elliott Whiteley are aiming to reinvent the toilet, with their smaller and more efficient Iota folding toilet concept.

Researchers at the University of Huddersfield are developing a breath test for lung cancer that will be trialed in UK pharmacies (Photo: Shutterstock)

Wellness & Healthy Living

Lung cancer breath test to be trialed at UK pharmacies

A team from the University of Huddersfield in the UK is developing a lung cancer breath test and plans to trial it in pharmacies in the South East of England. The goal is to detect the disease in its early stages to improve the chance of survival.