by Alfred Poor | March 18, 2019 | Health
Here are two apparently unrelated facts. About 13% of people in the U.S. aged 12 years or older have hearing loss in both ears. According to some sources, nearly half of fitness band owners have stopped wearing them after just six months. So what’s the...
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by Bruce Brown | February 15, 2019 | Enabling Tech
Wearable sensors are typically worn on the wrist, but we’ve written about sensors pinned to clothing, carried in a pocket, woven into garments, and even ingested. For example, in 2017 we wrote about Abilify MyCite, the first FDA cleared ingestible sensor. That...
by Bruce Brown | February 8, 2019 | Medical
When we first wrote about EarlySense in January 2017 following CES, we noted the multisensory patient under-mattress monitor’s versatility and accuracy. The second part of the article focused on the potential benefits to patients and hospitals in early patient...
by Alfred Poor | February 7, 2019 | Health
At CES 2019, there were more companies showing sleep technology products than ever before, from smartphone apps to high tech sleeping pods. I often say that sleep technology is like weather reports; they tell you what happened but don’t give you any way to make...
by Bruce Brown | February 4, 2019 | Enabling Tech, Medical
Smart pills represent a new way to combine technologies in which each element in the stack plays a critical role. The essential components of digital medications include a drug, an ingestible sensor, a wearable patch that receives data from the ingestible sensor, and...
