by Alfred Poor | March 11, 2015 | Enabling Tech
One feature sets a wearable Health Tech device from most other consumer electronic devices like an MP3 player is that the device not only distributes information — such as music — but it also gathers information as well. And to gather information, the...
by Alfred Poor | March 10, 2015 | Fitness, Health
The wearable Health Tech market is not just about starry-eyed entrepreneurs launching high-tech startups with bootstrap funding. The big corporations are also getting actively involved, and not just hardware companies like Apple, Samsung, and LG. One case in point is...
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by Alfred Poor | March 10, 2015 | Fitness, Health, Medical
In case you missed it, Apple made some announcements yesterday. They talked some more about the Apple Watch, but you still can’t buy one. You can’t even order one until next month. So we’ll wait a bit longer before we discuss what impact it might...
by Alfred Poor | March 9, 2015 | Medical
This may sound familiar; a company is working on creating a smart contact lens that can continuously measure an individual’s glucose levels. No, it’s not Google. Medella Health in Kitchener, Ontario is also working towards the same goal. Founded by...
by Alfred Poor | March 9, 2015 | Fitness, Health
Many people agree that wearable Health Tech devices will have a huge impact on the health and wellness of millions of people, both in terms of individual data and of aggregated information about larger populations that can lead to new insights about prevention and...
