by Alfred Poor | March 14, 2018 | General News, Medical
Eyes are sensitive organs, yet they are exposed to dust and germs on a daily basis. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), corneal infections are the cause of one in four cases of vision loss worldwide. Often, the cause is microbial keratitis, which can be...
by Alfred Poor | March 9, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Put your finger here and hold it steady while we scan for biometric data on 100 different health conditions. Science fiction? Today it is, but it may not be for long. Not if a group of researchers at five major universities have their way. Researchers at Rice...
by Alfred Poor | March 8, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
In order for wearable devices to “disappear” into our daily lives, they must be flexible and conform to normal body movements. Standard metal wires are excellent at conducting electricity; while they typically are flexible to some degree, they tend to be...
by Alfred Poor | March 7, 2018 | General News, Medical
We live in a remarkable time in which technology is advancing so rapidly that we cannot foresee all the implications of new devices as they appear. Who could have imagined that personal computers would lead to the “mining” of digital currency? Or that...
by Alfred Poor | March 6, 2018 | General News, Medical
The promise of Big Data is that if you can aggregate enough information, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms can sift through it and find correlations that a human mind might never find in a lifetime of searching. We’ve covered how Google’s AI labs...
