by Alfred Poor | September 10, 2015 | Enabling Tech
You may be annoyed or amused by Siri, but get used to it; it may well be at the forefront of user interfaces for mobile devices. A new report from Tractica predicts that speech recognition will be in 82% of mobile electronic devices by 2020, nearly doubling its...
by Alfred Poor | July 1, 2015 | Enabling Tech
Imagine a bandage that could tell healthcare workers at a glance what was going on underneath. Does a dressing need to be changed? Is there bacterial growth that indicates an infection? Is the temperature of the skin hotter or colder than normal, which could indicate...
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by Alfred Poor | May 20, 2015 | Health
According to Global Eyesight Now, six out of 10 people in the world wear glasses or corrective lenses (or have had corrective surgery). For the majority of these people their days start by putting on a pair of glasses and end by taking them off. VSP Global is one of...
by Alfred Poor | April 29, 2015 | Enabling Tech
Wearable Health Tech devices have all sorts of sensors, and many include cameras. These can be used for the prosaic tasks of capturing still images or video, but that’s just the start. Giving a device the power of vision means that it can detect gestures that...
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by Alfred Poor | April 22, 2015 | Enabling Tech
We’ve often discussed how important the user interface for wearable Health Tech devices is to their success, and how complex the problem is to come up with a good solution (such as here and here). Researchers at the famous MIT Media Labs have come up with a...
