by Alfred Poor | April 21, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
We’ve written about MC10 multiple times in the past. The Massachusetts-based company has made a splash with its flexible, thin sensor devices that can stick to a person’s skin. It includes near-field communications (NFC) capabilities that let it exchange...
by Alfred Poor | April 20, 2016 | General News, Health
About 400 million people worldwide suffer from either asthma or COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) and the numbers are rising rapidly every year. Medication delivered in the form of aerosol sprays can be effective in treating the symptoms, but studies show...
by Alfred Poor | April 19, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
One of the simplest functions of a wearable device is to simply announce “I am here.” Yet this simple operation can have a wide range of practical applications. Attached to a car or other valuable object, it can tell you where to find it if it is misplaced...
by Alfred Poor | April 18, 2016 | Fitness, General News, Health
One of my favorite (if apocryphal) quotes is the answer that the notorious bank robber Willy Sutton gave when asked why he robbed banks: “Because that’s where the money is!” If you want to look for the growth in any industry, whether it’s...
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by Alfred Poor | April 15, 2016 | General News, Medical
About 5 million people in the U.S. have type 2 diabetes, but none of them can use the wearable PAQ insulin infusion device from CeQur. Yet. That’s because the device has not yet received FDA clearance for use in the U.S., though it has received CE approval in...
