by William McCleary | September 30, 2022 | Medical
ready to edit Does Fitbit really make a difference in managing one’s diabetes? Or in helping to lower cholesterol and prevent diabetes? The device’s considerable worldwide popularity can be seen as a testament that it works, but where is the hard proof...
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by William McCleary | September 28, 2022 | Health, Medical
Catch me if I fall. The idiom has been used metaphorically in songs, literature, and common speech for a long time. But the team of Singapore-based researchers behind the Mobile Robotic Balance Assistant (MRBA) program means it literally. A robot designed to aid...
by William McCleary | September 26, 2022 | Enabling Tech
Yes, “zombie bacteria” is a real thing; it’s a phrase that was coined over a decade ago to label technically dead microbial bacteria that feeds on organic compounds. For the world of wearables, what these proteobacteria consume is less compelling...
by William McCleary | September 21, 2022 | Enabling Tech
Smaller and much cheaper to produce. That’s what researchers at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) are saying about their new coin-sized biosensing system that reads the body’s electrochemical signals. Intended for use in a...
by William McCleary | September 19, 2022 | Enabling Tech
There’s lots of data in your breath. And the Boston-area start-up Calibre Biometrics set out to harvest that information with a device that tracks respiratory and metabolic metrics in real-time. Together with the design firm Design 1st, they’ve created...
