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by Alfred Poor | April 25, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Innovation doesn’t just happen. Hundreds — even thousands — of people have great ideas every year, but these concepts need to be nurtured and tested, refined and developed, before they can be turned into viable products and services. One of the ways...
by Bruce Brown | April 22, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Paralyzed people and Parkinson’s disease patients can regain some control of their limbs and symptoms with neural implants. The problem is that with traditional implant hookups, wires from the implant run through the skull and connect with an external computer. Not...
by Alfred Poor | April 21, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
We’ve written about MC10 multiple times in the past. The Massachusetts-based company has made a splash with its flexible, thin sensor devices that can stick to a person’s skin. It includes near-field communications (NFC) capabilities that let it exchange...
by Bruce Brown | April 20, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Implantable Health Tech devices such as defibrillators and pacemakers can be life savers, but come with their own technical issues. If we’re going to be implanting medical devices to regulate, control, assist, measure, and monitor vital body functions, fast and...
by Bruce Brown | April 19, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
The niftiest new Health Tech can’t help you much if you’re in a remote location or stranded with no way to travel. Technology developments in other fields may soon be ready to come to the rescue, however. Google just received a patent for a “Request...
by Alfred Poor | April 19, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
One of the simplest functions of a wearable device is to simply announce “I am here.” Yet this simple operation can have a wide range of practical applications. Attached to a car or other valuable object, it can tell you where to find it if it is misplaced...
