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...]
Device Stimulates the Brain for Mental Health Treatments [video]
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Brain stimulation with wearable consumer or medical devices offers a wide range of possible helpful effects. We've looked at Thync Relax to alter moods, research at the University of Washington using direct brain stimulation to help people with spinal cord injury or prosthetic limbs learn to control motion, experiments by the 711 Human Performance Wing at Wright-Patterson Air … [Read more...]
Earbud Helps Women Track Fertility [video]
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Women who are trying to get pregnant often find it difficult to determine their fertility windows. Tracking basal body temperature (BBT) is a common method of predicting ovulation. The traditional way to track cycles by taking the woman's temperature when she first arises gives a single daily data point that can easily be thrown off by other factors. We have looked in the past … [Read more...]
Wearable Data Study Reveals Regional Parkinson’s Differences
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease, trailing only Alzheimer's Disease. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), approximately 1% of the population aged 60 have Parkinson's and the prevalence increases to 4% by age 80. Symptoms of PD can include bradykinesia, dyskinesia, fluctuations, tremor, and immobility. In … [Read more...]
Blanket with Heartbeat Comforts Babies [video]
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Kangaroo Care (KC) techniques were originally used for preterm babies in Bogota, Columbia, in the 1970s. The goal was to create an alternative to expensive incubators in neonatal intensive care units (NICU) that weren't available. KC was named because of the parallels to the way kangaroo mothers nurture their newborns. In the last 40 years, KC has become common in NICUs in the … [Read more...]
