by Bruce Brown | November 29, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Wearable health tech takes a giant step further with stretchable devices that can attach to the skin. Researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Colorado Boulder, in conjunction with other institutions, have developed a tiny, soft, wearable...
by Bruce Brown | November 28, 2016 | General News, Health
A little bit of stress can be good for us. Performance stress or stress in the face of perceived threats lead to action, sometimes even life-saving, by increasing the heart rate and breathing, tensing muscles, and improving blood flow to the brain. Our immune...
by Bruce Brown | November 25, 2016 | General News, Health
Emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, and biosensors that respond to heat, blood content, breath, and sweat can be as fascinating as they are forward-looking. Occasionally, however, we come across a practical, wearable health tech product that relates...
by Bruce Brown | November 24, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Nylon fiber has a new powerful new application; it can be used to make artificial muscle fibers, according to the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. Muscles expand and contract and previous artificial muscles do that as well. Real muscles, however, also bend,...
by Bruce Brown | November 23, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Biomarkers in human sweat could be used to monitor a patient’s health without blood samples if the sweat sample collection and measurement can be controlled. A multi-institution research team led by John Rogers of the McCormick School of Engineering and...