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by Alfred Poor | March 2, 2018 | General News, Medical
When a stroke victim goes through rehab, therapists monitor muscle activity, motion, vital signs, and more in order to track progress. One limiting factor is that the sensors require wires to carry their signals. This can be inconvenient in the clinical setting, but...
by Bruce Brown | November 8, 2017 | General News, Medical
The days when a country doctor hitched up a draft horse to a carriage to rush off in the snowy night to respond to a medical emergency are behind us. Now we have first responders and telemedicine. We’ve written about the HiRO telemedicine disaster drones that...
by Alfred Poor | September 6, 2017 | General News, Health
Digital sound processing such as beamforming have done wonders to improve hearing aids so that they can do more than just amplify sounds for the hearing impaired. But there are times when even these new technologies fall short. How is the device supposed to know which...
by Alfred Poor | June 12, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
We hear sounds thanks to our eardrums; sound waves create varying amounts of pressure on the eardrum, and these vibrations are transmitted to the inner ear where nerves translate these vibrations to sensations that we perceive as sound. A microphone works in a similar...
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by Alfred Poor | April 24, 2015 | Fitness
While Google takes a low-key approach to the continued development of Google Glass, there are still lots of other head-mounted computer systems. One example is the Jet available from Recon. Marketed for fitness applications, the device is a full-featured computer...
