by Alfred Poor | September 28, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
One of the challenges for wearable devices is getting power to them. You can include a battery, but this will need to be recharged or replaced when it runs down. Researchers have explored harvesting energy from sources including body heat, motion, and ambient radio...
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by Alfred Poor | September 27, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Ultrasound is one of the most valuable imaging technologies available in healthcare. It does not need special rooms; a typical device can roll around on an equipment cart. It’s noninvasive, yet lets us peer deep inside living tissue. It relies on sound waves...
by Alfred Poor | September 26, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health, Medical
Just over four years ago, Health Tech Insider was launched. Our mission has evolved and been refined over those years, but in the final analysis we continue to cover wearable and mobile devices for health and medical applications, along with the supporting...
by Alfred Poor | September 24, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
As we have pointed out here repeatedly, virtual reality (VR) glasses tend to get the lion’s share of media coverage, while augmented reality (AR) glasses keep racking up wins in enterprise markets. Both have important health and medical applications. VR glasses...
by Bruce Brown | September 20, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Health and medical technology developments comprise the majority of our coverage on Health Tech Insider, especially for wearable and mobile devices. We also write about wearable tech that protects, alerts, or enhances in the workplace and everyday life. For example,...
by Bruce Brown | September 19, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Advances in wearable health tech raise hope for additional discoveries to relieve or cure people with debilitating or fatal diseases and conditions. The artificial pancreas is a notable case in point, combining continuous glucose monitoring with insulin pumps....
