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by Bruce Brown | March 25, 2021 | Medical
Exoskeletons serve various purposes. We’ve written about exoskeletons that assist with lifting, prevent back pain and injury, enable standing for long periods of time, and assist mobility. Paris-based Wandercraft’s flagship model Atalante wearable robotic...
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by Bruce Brown | March 24, 2021 | Health
Which would be more valuable to you, a wearable that reports about a condition or one that helps relieve it? Yeah, that’s what we think, too. We’ve written about sleep-tracking watches, rings, finger tip sensors, and more. Paris-based UrgoTech’s...
by Bruce Brown | March 23, 2021 | Health
The University of Michigan’s School of Public Health is partnering with Apple to learn how sound exposure impacts heating health. The Michigan Public Health Apple Hearing Study is an ongoing study that has already begun to yield results. The overall purpose is...
by Bruce Brown | March 22, 2021 | Enabling Tech
There’s no shortage of potential applications for artificial skin, including rehabilitation, exoskeletal surfaces, and monitoring chronic diseases. There are also plenty of challenges. Ideally, artificial skin needs to be lightweight, flexible and stretchable,...
by Bruce Brown | March 19, 2021 | Health
The opioid addiction epidemic didn’t disappear during the COVID-10 pandemic. There’s no vaccine that protects people from substance use disorder. We’ve written about a wide variety of technologies aimed at helping people with addiction. For example,...
