University of Washington researchers have brought earrings into the smart tech realm.
The Thermal Earring, a wireless wearable device, continuously monitors a user’s earlobe temperature.
“We found that sensing the skin temperature on the lobe, instead of a hand or wrist, was much more accurate,” Qiuyue (Shirley) Xue, a UW doctoral student, said in a story published in UW News. “It also gave us the option to have part of the sensor dangle to separate ambient room temperature from skin temperature.”
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The earring was more accurate than a smartwatch at sensing skin temperatures
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