Less than a drop of sweat is needed for a newly developed pH sensor to tell if the user is dehydrated, low on sugar or at risk of skin infection, by measuring how acidic or alkaline the sweat is.
The device, comprising a colour-changing pH sensor that is read and interpreted by an algorithm, was created by a team of five researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) after a year of research.
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