“Revolutionary new sensors that can detect a heartbeat up to a metre away are the focus of a new partnership between the University of Sussex and Plymouth based Plessey Semiconductors. This is a completely new area of sensor technology that measures changes in an electric field in a similar way to a magnetometer detecting changes in a magnetic field. The sensor, which requires no physical or resistive contact to make measurements, will enable innovative new products to be made such as medical scanners that are simply held close to a patients chest to obtain a detailed ECG reading or devices that can 'see' through walls.” Read more at
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/newsandevents/?id=5903