by Bruce Brown | August 13, 2020 | Health
Take a seat. That’s what’s required to use a new health tech form factor. We often write about wearable wristbands, pins, headbands, and hearables, as well as implants and carryables with embedded biometric sensors. HeartHealth Intelligence is developing...
by Bruce Brown | August 13, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Flexible electronics developed for health tech wearables have several advantages over rigid devices. Great comfort and stealthiness may also boost patient compliance for continuous monitoring when necessary. Powering flexible wearable tech is challenge, however....
by Bruce Brown | August 11, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Flexible skin patches with biometric sensors have several advantages over devices that you strap on, clip to clothing, or carry. Skin patch sensors conform to the skin surface, are light in weight, comfortable, and easy to remember to wear if you never have to take...
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by Bruce Brown | August 10, 2020 | Enabling Tech, General News
C3PO and R2D2 notwithstanding, not all robots are hard. We’ve written about soft robots before, usually in devices that physically contact humans or when the robots function as muscle replacements. For example, in 2019, we wrote about work at Purdue on 3D...
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by Bruce Brown | August 7, 2020 | Medical
Uncertainty and worry about concussions and other traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are a one-two punch; the injury might not get to you, but the stress can wear you down. Professional athletes and their families and parents of student-athletes in particular often face...
