Watch as You Remove Earwax with Smart Spade [video]

Watch as You Remove Earwax with Smart Spade [video]

I’m pretty sure we’ll never see a clinical study that substantiates the effectiveness of Axel Glade’s Spade smart ear wax remover. As a practical matter, however, digging into our ears to free up clogged or accumulated ear wax with cotton swabs,...
Amazon Patents Alexa Wellness Detection

Amazon Patents Alexa Wellness Detection

We don’t usually cover patents in Health Tech Insider; there’s little likelihood that any given patent ever will result in a commercial product. But digital voice assistants such as Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Apple Siri are training consumers to...
Wearable Electronic Patents Surge

Wearable Electronic Patents Surge

Whatever your opinion might be about the mess of worldwide patent systems that companies must navigate these days, it remains clear that there is a need to protect intellectual property. And in the wearable technology space, companies have been availing themselves of...
Google’s Smart Contacts Licensed by Novartis

Google’s Smart Contacts Licensed by Novartis

Google revealed last January that the company was working on a “smart contact lens” project. While other researchers have been working on similar projects to produce a computer display on a contact lens, the goal of Google’s development is to measure...