by Alfred Poor | July 8, 2015 | Health
If you are of a certain age, you may remember “mood rings.” These devices had heat-sensitive liquid crystal layers that would change color, with the idea being that your skin temperature would reflect your mood. A group named Team Turquoise has taken a...
by Alfred Poor | July 7, 2015 | Medical
At least one out of every five people in the U.S. suffer from bruxism. If you’re not familiar with the term, it refers to grinding your teeth together, especially while you’re sleeping. It’s a major problem for some people, with secondary side...
by Alfred Poor | July 7, 2015 | Health, Medical
During his State of the of the Union address last January, President Obama called for the launching of a Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI), intended to use Big Data approaches to find new ways to treat and cure diseases “like cancer and diabetes.” The...
by Alfred Poor | July 6, 2015 | Health, Medical
According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than one in three seniors fall each year resulting in more than $34 billion in healthcare costs. Nearly half of these falls occur away from the home. For this reason, many companies offer personal...
by Alfred Poor | July 6, 2015 | Enabling Tech
Whatever your opinion might be about the mess of worldwide patent systems that companies must navigate these days, it remains clear that there is a need to protect intellectual property. And in the wearable technology space, companies have been availing themselves of...
