by Alfred Poor | June 12, 2014 | Health, Medical
In order for a wearable fitness or health device to be helpful, it needs to gather data about the user who is wearing it. One of the key challenges in this area is to create materials that can collect information over a relatively large area, that are sufficiently...
by Alfred Poor | June 12, 2014 | Fitness
We used to call it “portable computing,” and then “mobile computing,” but the bits have become small enough that we can simply attach them to our body somehow so now we call it “wearable technology.” Google Glass may get the...
by Alfred Poor | June 11, 2014 | Enabling Tech
Wearable computing devices must be small, lightweight, and energy efficient in order to be successful. When it comes to displaying information, the Google Glass is a prime example of what a head-mounted display can be. The lynchpin in such a design is the imager: a...
by Alfred Poor | June 10, 2014 | Enabling Tech, Medical
Researchers at the University of Texas, Dallas and the University of Tokyo have demonstrated ways to print transistors on plastic substrates that then can conform to structures in the body such as blood vessels, nerves, or tendons. This will make it possible to create...
by Alfred Poor | June 10, 2014 | Medical
Our son was born with strabismus, commonly known as “lazy eye,” in which the eyes do not track together and typically one eye is turned inward. Part of the treatment involves wearing an eye patch over the “good” eye to strengthen the muscles in...
