Device Hears What You Eat

Device Hears What You Eat

More than two-thirds of American adults are overweight. Clearly, we need to eat less and exercise more. Just as clearly, that is a whole lot easier to say than to do. Researchers have experimented with all sorts of ways to change a person’s behaviors about food...
Still Hands for Parkinson’s Patients

Still Hands for Parkinson’s Patients

You might be appalled when you consider what you cannot do when you have severe hand tremors. Shaky hands make it difficult — if not impossible — to write legibly, type, use a mouse, insert a key in a lock, retrieve a card or cash to pay for goods, button...
Smart Necklace Tracks Your Eating and More

Smart Necklace Tracks Your Eating and More

The IDTechEx conference was held in Santa Clara, CA November 18 and 19, 2015, covering a wide range of topics including wearable devices and related technology such as sensors, printed electronics, and energy harvesting. This is one of the many items of interest from...