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This invention provides a nature-inspired, multilayer photothermal textile and personal heated wearables, such as clothing, comprising such textile for highly efficient thermoregulation and personal thermal management.

Tracking eye movement is integral for constructing virtual reality headsets, and in the healthcare sector, eye movement tracking is useful for diagnosing sleep disorders. Current iterations of commercial eye trackers mainly rely on visually tracking the wearer’s retina using head-mounted cameras. This approach suffers from many analytical limitations, in addition to the fact that the resulting headsets are heavy, cumbersome, and constricting.

 

Aside from cameras, another method to track eye movement is electrooculography (EoG), in which the electric pulses created by the seven extraocular muscles are detected by a skin-mounted electrode. While EoG is the most sensitive and error-free approach to track eye motion, a fully-integrated and portable EoG headset with five electrode leads is not known.

 

Here, Professors Trisha Andrew and Deepak Ganesan create a lightweight garment that can record EoG signals and, therefore, track the eye motions of the wearer. The PIs decorate a lightweight molded-foam sleeping mask with dry electrodes, and integrate a power source and processing circuit onto the headband of the sleep mask. This creates a fully-integrated and sensitive eye tracking system that can be used to create next-generation VR headsets and track eye movement in patients suffering from sleep disorders.

A new fully asymmetric backscatter communication, which allows for battery-less sensors and readers, protocol where nodes blindly transmit data as and when they sense. This model enables fully flexible node designs, from extraordinarily power efficient backscatter radios that consume barely a few micro-watts to high-throughput radios that can stream at hundreds of Kbps while consuming a paltry tens of micro-watts.

Traditionally in data exchange among devices, all devices equally share the energy burden incurred in signal transmission and reception, limiting you to the device with the smallest energy capacity. This invention was developed to address this asymmetric available energy mobile devices encounter, allowing one to shift the energy burden to the highest capacity device, allowing more data to be exchanged before recharging.  Braidio is able to dynamically switch the transmission carrier between transmitter and receiver and increases the number of bit exchanges between a transmitter and receiver by more than two orders of magnitude over Bluetooth, particularly in highly asymmetric scenarios. Braidio operates like a standard Bluetooth radio when a device has sufficient energy, but operates like RFID when energy is low, off-loading energy use to a device with a larger battery when needed.

 

This invention can extend battery life of the smaller device hundreds of times in some cases. Braidio capability can enable power-proportional wireless communication wherein two devices with different battery capacities can multiples between the different carrier modes, making it practical for a range of mobile devices from laptop to smart watch.