Can Gummy Bears Monitor How Children Chew?

by Victoria Toh






Dentist are not going to be happy!

New technology proposed by electrical engineers, Donghyun Lee and Beelee Chua at Korea University in Seoul, have teamed with Haribo to create a prototype Haribo gummy that is able to detect and monitor the pressure on the sweet when a child chews it in order to measure a child’s development.


  
It is only in the early stages but this new idea could help indicate a child’s muscle growth around their jaw to see if they are developing properly. The gummy device is recyclable and is held between bamboo cantilevers with a wrapping of conducting aluminium foil.




You can read the full New Statesman article on this potential medical/dental breakthrough here.



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