by William McCleary | October 10, 2022 | Enabling Tech
Laser wristwatches are nothing new to James Bond fans who have watched 007 use his laser-enabled watch to cut his way out of a few jams. But laser tech is relatively new to health-monitoring wearables in the consumer market. And Laserland looks like where we’re...
by Bruce Brown | September 27, 2022 | Enabling Tech, Health
Alliances among digital health enterprises are increasingly common. In the past month, we covered digital therapeutics company Onduo by Verily’s partnership with digital musculoskeletal care provider Sword Health. We also wrote about...
by Bruce Brown | September 26, 2022 | Enabling Tech
We know that large, well-known companies such as Abbot, Medtronic, and Withings bring new digital health tech products to market. Small start-up companies with a new idea often lack sufficient resources to take those ideas all the way through design, development,...
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 Bruce Brown | September 19, 2022 | Enabling Tech
Is there any limit to the biodata attainable from sweat? Apparently not, at least that’s the implication from Caltech’s Cherng Department of Medical Engineering. Led by assistant professor Wei Gao, the Caltech team published a report explaining their...