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by Alfred Poor | January 8, 2015 | Health
According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), as many as 3.8 million sports- and recreation-related concussions happen every year. And that’s just in the United States. It’s no surprise that many people are working hard at identifying potentially...
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by Alfred Poor | January 7, 2015 | Fitness
Do you like to listen to your favorite music as you workout, but don’t want a tangle of wires? Do you also track biometrics such as heart rate and exertion level as you exercise, but don’t want to wear a chest strap? The folks behind the new FreeWavz...
by Alfred Poor | January 6, 2015 | Health
Modern hearing aids are nothing short of miraculous. No longer do they just make everything louder; you can tune them so that you only get a boost in the range of the sound spectrum where you have hearing loss. But most are “set and forget” systems that...
by Alfred Poor | January 6, 2015 | Fitness, Health, Medical
I made it! CES 2015 is as big and crowded as ever before, and this year, there seems to be a special, high-energy vibe that I haven’t seen in years. Perhaps that’s because I’m focused on wearable Health Tech devices and all the related technologies,...
by Alfred Poor | January 5, 2015 | Health
For the record, superlatives in marketing materials instantly trigger my Skept-o-Meter. It’s rare that a company can truly lay claim to being “first” or “best” or “only.” So I almost stopped reading the press release about the...
