Picture this: you jump in your car and drive over to a friend’s house for some lunch. When you get there, you tip your smartphone into the landscape position and show off some recent holiday photos, guzzle down some food, then work off the calories with several games of Wii tennis. You’ve just had so many brushes with MEMS devices (microelectromechanical systems), it’s difficult to count them all! Lucy chats to Dr Emma Carter, a Research Fellow in Micro-Engineering at the University of Birmingham. As well as talking about the MEMS devices which can be found in equipment we use every single day, Emma reveals the multiple applications of E-Nose technology, and how energy scavenging - such as using blood pressure - can power these devices. Where's this amazing microtechnology going next? Listen and find out!

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