The CSIC has developed a low-cost system for analyzing sweat in real time. It has an ultra-compact format and can be integrated in wearable devices like smart-watches or patches. It enables the analysis in real-time of different sweat components and characteristics such as pH, glucose, lactate, and electrolytes.

BrainCom is a FET Proactive project, funded by the European Commission with 8.35M€ for the next 5 years. The kick-off meeting took place recently at the ICN2, one of the team leaders, and at the UAB university. The Microelectronics Institute of Barcelona (IMB-CNM) of the CSIC is one of the partners.

PHENOMEN is a project coordinated by the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2). It is at the intersection of photonics, radio frequency signal processing and phononics and proposes to build the first practical optically-driven phonon sources and detectors.

Pure Inspiration, a spin-off of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence of the CSIC (IIIA-CSIC), has developed WWWOWWW, a new cloth-shopping web app that gives suggestions and helps consumers in on-line shopping.

A European project will develop the technology of autonomous sources of energy With 36 partners and almost 100 million euros of budget, the project EnSo, “Energy for Smart Objects”, is aimed at developing autonomous microenergy sources for small devices. The Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona (IMB-CNM) is the only Spanish research center involved in the project.

Fuelium, Gnanomat and SiTerm are three of the projects awarded among 200 proposals applied to the Repsol’s “Fondo de Emprendedores”. The call is aimed at funding the most innovative company projects or ideas in the field of energy.

Scientists at the CSIC’s Microelectronics Institute of Barcelona are working in the development of biosensors for a quick control of water toxicity. These biosensors, which are not restricted to individual pollutants in the sample, can detect the synergy of all of them and enable controlling the general toxicity of water.

Scientists at the Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona have developed a device to harvest energy from ambient vibrations. Sized in millimeters, it can provide with energy small devices or sensors which need little power.