Your Shirt Hears Your Heart

Your Shirt Hears Your Heart

A group of engineers and designers from MIT and Rhode Island School of Design have developed acoustic fabric that can convert sound pressure waves to electrical signals. The team detailed the technology in a study published in Nature. Potential applications for sound...
A Selfie Can Screen for Heart Disease

A Selfie Can Screen for Heart Disease

We now have a new way that your smartphone could save your life, using a simple selfie. Conventional camera sales tumbled after the 2007 launch of the first generation Apple iPhone with a 2MP rear camera. Apple’s 2010 iPhone 4 introduction gave the world the...
Smart Toilet Seat Tracks Heart Health at Home

Smart Toilet Seat Tracks Heart Health at Home

Take a seat. That’s what’s required to use a new health tech form factor. We often write about wearable wristbands, pins, headbands, and hearables, as well as implants and carryables with embedded biometric sensors. HeartHealth Intelligence is developing...
Partners Seek No-Cuff Blood Pressure Monitoring

Partners Seek No-Cuff Blood Pressure Monitoring

Blood pressure is one of the most essential vital signs when it comes to monitoring a patient’s health. The traditional method is to use a pressure cuff on a patient’s upper arm and then listen to the sounds of blood flow as the pressure changes. The main...