Nokia has joined the biometric monitoring platform club. The Finish technology and communications giant recently dropped the Withings brand name from its line of wearable health tech devices. Now Nokia is moving forward to develop and market biometric monitoring devices and its central software platform Health Mate. The platform collects data from Nokia devices and helps users … [Read more...]
Sound Therapy System for Better Sleep
As scientists learn more about the potential effects of sound on humans, we may see more health tech devices using audible and inaudible sound for purposes hitherto unforeseen. It's generally accepted that humans hear sound in the range of 20 to 20,000 Hz. Other species are not so limited. Elephants can tones as low as 14-16 Hz and whales in water detect 7Hz tones. … [Read more...]
Goodbye Hello: Not All Launches Succeed
Crowd-funding has helped many Health Tech devices raise development funds and build a market for new products. Some campaigns have extraordinary success. For example, consider the Hello from Sense. This sleep-tracking device ran a Kickstarter campaign three years ago with the modest goal of raising $100,000. Instead, they raised $2.4 million from nearly 20,000 backers. And … [Read more...]
Kid’s Wellness Bands Lets Parents Monitor Health [video]
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Wearable Health Tech for young children typically focuses on monitoring vital signs of sick kids. Another use case is a wearable that tracks health records in remote areas in the world where healthcare is intermittent and parents may not understand or value regular checkups. San Francisco-based Good Parents, Inc., is introducing Kiddo. Kiddo is a health and wellness tracker … [Read more...]
Sleep Sensor Includes Blood Oxygen [video]
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One of the recurring themes here on Health Tech Insider is that the path for success for wearable devices is to add features and do more. Take sleep sensors as an example. Most of them track your motion while you sleep, and some will also track heart rate. From this data, the supporting app will infer the quality of your sleep and the time you spend in various sleep … [Read more...]
