SPARC Lab in the Media

(Aug 24) Human-Inspired Chips for Energy-Efficient Wearable AI

Purdue News features SPARC Lab’s human-inspired chips which use 100× less energy and transfer data 10× faster than Bluetooth, enabling offline AI on wearables. Read Article

(Jul 24) Purdue Strategic Ventures “Doubles Down” on Body-Internet

Purdue Strategic Ventures announces a follow-on investment in Ixana, citing accelerated growth in defense and commercial sectors for the revolutionary "Body-Internet Platform." Read Article

(Jan 24) Wireless Neural Implants Could Transform Tech Interaction

Featured by Nature Electronics, this research demonstrates a wireless electro-quasistatic brain implant for broadband communication, paving the way for wire-free mind-controlled electronics. Purdue News, Nature Electronics Paper

(Dec 23) The “Post-Smartphone” Era: Body Internet

SPARC Lab’s vision of using touch and thought to interact with the digital world was highlighted at CES Las Vegas, demonstrating music transfer through human touch. Read Article, Watch Demo

(May 23) Purdue Ventures Invests in Ixana — “Startup of the Year at Mira Awards”

Following the TechPoint "Startup of the Year" win, media covered the $3M seed funding for Ixana’s Wi-R technology, which shifts from "wireless" to "wire-like wireless" using the human body. Inside IN Business, Purdue News, Watch Mira Awards

(Dec 20) IEEE Spectrum features SparcLab work on the human body as wire

Online articles: IEEE Spectrum Feature, Backstory, Magazine Article.

(Nov 20) Digital Communication through Human Touch achieving ~mm scale fingertip signal confinement: ACM ToCHI paper/CHI 2021 presentation.

Congratulations to Shovan, David and co-authors. Demonestration video can be found here.

(Apr 19) IEEE Spectrum suggests SparcLab work as a solution of US Department of Homeland Security advisory

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security last week warned that numerous medical devices made by Medtronic are vulnerable to cyber attack. A solution to which is the EQS-HBC recently published. IEEE Spectrum covered our work saying "Medtronic discloses medical device vulnerabilities, while Purdue University scientists propose countermeasure to block attacks". IEEE Spectrum Article.

(Mar 19) Secure Internet of Body using Electro-Quasistatic Human Body Communication (Scientific Reports (Nature))

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(Mar 18) Prof. Sen speaking at MIT TR35 India Award Speech

(Mar 18) Prof. Sen speaking on Indian National TV CNBC TV-18 Young Turks Program

(Mar 18) MIT TR 35 India Award

We sincerely thank our sponsors AFOSR YIP, NSF CRII Award and Google FRA for supporting this research spanning from basic research to applications.

(Dec 17) Human Body as a Wire

• Dec 2017: Our work on Broadband Interference-robust Human Body Communication was featured by 30+ news sites in USA, UK, Greece, India.
• We sincerely thank our sponsors AFOSR YIP , NSF CRII Award , and Google FRA for supporting this research spanning from basic research to applications.
• "Purdue discovery clears way for human body to work as robust communication network for electronic devices"

Smart wearable devices allow for the exchange of information using the human body as a robust communication medium for networking electronic devices. In this photo, a researcher wears devices that allow for the exchange of information using the body to communicate instead of sending a signal through the airwaves that could be hacked.