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by Alfred Poor | December 6, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
As wearable Health Tech devices tackle more sophisticated tasks, they will need to incorporate more sophisticated abilities. One such function is movement; it’s easy to think of applications where it could be useful for sensors to be able to move to different...
by Alfred Poor | August 10, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Flat screen display technologies are amazing, especially when you compare them with the industry leader of just one decade ago: the CRT. Even though LCD and OLED displays are thin and light by comparison, they both have one important limitation; you have to create...
by Alfred Poor | October 21, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical, Uncategorized
Liquid crystals were discovered nearly 150 years ago, though it was not until 1962 that they were viewed as a way to create flat panel displays. The cigar-shaped molecules have the useful characteristic of aligning with each other under normal circumstances, but will...
by Alfred Poor | September 26, 2014 | Medical
Scientists at Northwestern University and University of Illinois have collaborated on creating a wearable device that can be used to monitor patient conditions around the clock. The thin, flexible patch moves with the person’s skin, and so should be unobtrusive...
