by Bruce Brown | January 28, 2021 | Health
Digital voice assistants such as Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri send us reminders, answer questions, and provide music and entertainment at our spoken command. We’ve written about several medical and health-related Alexa Skills such as...
by Bruce Brown | January 27, 2021 | Medical
The risk of infection during the COVID-19 pandemic puts healthcare professional in the line of fire. The risk is especially high when clinical personnel use stethoscopes for standard health checks such as listening to patients’ hearts and lungs. The importance...
by Bruce Brown | January 26, 2021 | General News, Health
Taiwan-based Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) made a big splash at the first all-digital CES 2021 this year. ITRI showed a variety of biosensing devices in CES virtual showrooms including iCardioGuard. iCardioGuard uses multi-sensing microwave and...
by Bruce Brown | January 25, 2021 | Enabling Tech
Many of us spend much of our time looking at screens while we work, recreate, and communicate with friends and family. It may not be that big a leap to adapt to smart contact lens wearables that could replace our handheld screens. We’ve covered smart lens...
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by Bruce Brown | January 22, 2021 | Health
We first wrote about wearable baby monitoring sensors as early as 2014 when we covered Sproutling’s strap-on device that tracks heartbeat, breathing rate, and skin temperature. In 2015 we covered the Owlet, a sensor in a washable sock that measures heartbeat and...
