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by Bruce Brown | December 7, 2021 | Health
Last September Amazon announced Alexa Together, an elder care subscription service. On December 7, Amazon launched Alexa Together with a free, limited-time six-month trial. The same day, Vayyar Imaging announced its launch of Vayyar Care, the company’s touchless...
by Bruce Brown | December 6, 2021 | Health
Supply chain disruptions and shipping delays likely impacted shipments in Q3 2021, but despite these pandemic-related challenges, global wearables shipments increased 9.9% year-over-year (YoY) during the quarter. That’s the big news from IDC’s latest...
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by Bruce Brown | December 2, 2021 | Health
We’ve written about various wearable technologies that detect fatigue, including a hat, pants, and even an exoskeleton. Netherlands-based AirBliss+ plans to introduce GIBLI — a smart respirator that also detects fatigue and falls — at CESS 2022 in...
by Bruce Brown | November 30, 2021 | Enabling Tech
Earlier this year, we wrote about a brain-computer interface (BCI) developed by Stanford University researchers that enabled a paralyzed individual to turn his thoughts to written sentences. The Stanford BCI platform starts with chips implanted in the patient’s...
by Bruce Brown | November 29, 2021 | Health
We periodically write about market research reports from reputable firms that track wearables. We cover reports from IDC, Gartner, and IDTechEx, among others. These reports typically include data from the previous quarter, half, or full year with the research...
