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by Bruce Brown | May 5, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Researchers at Battelle and The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center published a study that documented a brain-computer interface (BCI) breakthrough. We’ve written about BCI multiple in multiple articles. Most of the research with BCI centers on training...
by Bruce Brown | April 28, 2020 | Enabling Tech
COVID-19 threatens to overwhelm our healthcare systems. In many cases, healthcare personnel cannot keep up with the influx of patients. Help may be on the way, however. A company has launched a new app that relies on telehealth to screen patients based on their...
by Bruce Brown | April 23, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Harvesting host energy to power biosensors is an efficient way to keep wearables and injectables running, at least in theory. We wrote about recent work at ETRI on a thermoelectric module that generates energy to power sensors from human body heat. In 2019 we covered...
by Bruce Brown | April 20, 2020 | Enabling Tech, Medical
Smart bandages are a hot topic in wearable tech development. Recent smart bandage designs differ in specific applications, but typically share two functions: wound monitoring and treatment delivery. We wrote about MIT’s smart bandage that releases medication...
by Bruce Brown | April 3, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Privacy issues continue to shape the wearables industry. In 2014 we wrote about a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) study finding that wearable users were extremely concerned about the use of patient-contributed data. The FTC took a stance on the...
by Alfred Poor | March 19, 2020 | Enabling Tech
As the old joke goes, what do you call a device that stores a lot of energy in a very small space? You call it “a bomb.” Aside from blowing things up, storing more energy is an important goal in improving everything from wearable health tech devices to...
