Your Phone’s Smarts Now Can Improve Your Hearing

Your Phone’s Smarts Now Can Improve Your Hearing

by | November 17, 2022 | Health

Health Tech Insider often covers new developments in hearable technology, starting well before the 2017 OTC Hearing Aid Act legislation. The law directed the FDA to create a category of over-the-counter (OTC) hearing aids. The act’s intent is to loosen...
Donate Meals for Free With Your Exercise

Donate Meals for Free With Your Exercise

by | September 8, 2022 | Health

Are you looking for a new way to stay motivated for healthy daily exercise? Use San Diego-based Vizer’s eponymous mobile app and you can convert your daily workouts into meal donations at U.S. food banks. You can also win rewards with the same good habits. The...
Affordable 3D-Printed Eye Care Kit [video]

Affordable 3D-Printed Eye Care Kit [video]

by | July 22, 2021 | Health

New Zealand-based ODocs Eye Care develops tools to assist ophthalmologists. For the past six years, ODocs has worked with 3D printer and 3D scaling software company Ultimaker to develop an open source smartphone ophthalmoscope. The company has moved on to develop...
Self-monitoring Skin App Tracks Moles [video]

Self-monitoring Skin App Tracks Moles [video]

by | June 22, 2020 | Health

We’ve written several times about new technologies designed to help dermatologists diagnose skin cancer. In 2017, we wrote about 3Derm System’s 3Derm handheld that primary care physicians use to take photos of marks on a patient’s skin to send to a...