by Bruce Brown | May 4, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Sure, you want better vision. We all do. Eyeglasses are old school; they need cleaning, need updating, and are yet something else to carry around and easy to damage or lose. Contact lenses work for many, but you can’t wear them all the time, you have to replace...
by Alfred Poor | May 4, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
One of my recurring themes on Health Tech Insider is that wearable technology will have to “disappear” into our daily lives in order to become truly effective. One key development is “functional textiles”: cloth that can perform useful tasks in...
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by Bruce Brown | May 3, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
When deaf people speak with other deaf people and others who know American Sign Language (ASL), communication is fast and generally pretty smooth. When they try to communicate with others who don’t know ASL, it can be difficult if not impossible. Lip reading...
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by Alfred Poor | May 3, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
In many ways, we are witnessing a perfect storm of technology that drives the explosive growth of the wearable Health Tech industry. In addition to low-cost, low-power, miniature sensors and sophisticate wireless data transmission, 3D printing provides advantages...
by Alfred Poor | April 28, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical
Grace Kabelenga was born in 2008 in Zambia with what was described as severe craniofacial deformities, but that is an understatement. The bones in the middle of her face were missing, as well as large portions of her skull and the bones that separate her brain from...
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by Alfred Poor | April 26, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health
Google Glass is dead, right? Then how come Augmedix just announced $17 million in new investment from five leading healthcare systems across the U.S.? The fact is that augmented reality (AR) is finding a home at the enterprise level, and one particularly successful...
