![CES 2016: Lensless Camera Is Tiny and Low-Power [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/01/Rambus-camera.jpg?resize=600%2C271)
by Alfred Poor | January 13, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Solid-state cameras are everywhere, from smartphones to door bells to baby monitors, and a host of other devices. But they all have something in common: a lens to focus light on the tiny imaging chip. In relative terms, the lens is enormous compared with the sensor....
by Alfred Poor | January 8, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
A recurring theme here at Health Tech Insider is the question of alternative user interfaces for electronic devices. Due to injury, disease, or other disability, many people are not able to use the traditional mouse, keyboard, or touch pad inputs that are the common...
by Alfred Poor | January 5, 2016 | Enabling Tech, Fitness, General News, Health, Medical
Full Disclosure: I did not write this today, or even yesterday. I wrote this last weekend because yesterday I spent the day traveling and today I started drinking from a fire hose for the rest of this week. I’m at CES 2016, the largest consumer electronics...
![Save Your Used Gum for Medical Science [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2015/12/Used-chewing-gum-with-video-button-600x274.jpg?resize=600%2C274)
by Bruce Brown | January 4, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Are you ready for this? Used chewing gum may play an important role in the development of biosensors. It turns out, according to the American Chemical Society (ACS), that many sensors used on and in the human body to detect various phenomena are stiff solids that...
![Low-Cost Mouth Mouse Wins Design Contest [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2015/12/Mouth-Op-mouse.jpg?resize=600%2C275)
by Alfred Poor | December 30, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News
Millions of people have disabilities that prevent them from using their hands for tasks that many of us take for granted, such as interacting with a computer. The winning design in the MakerBot Thingiverse competition for the Assistive Technology Challenge addresses...
by Alfred Poor | December 29, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News
In order to quantify our bodies and reap the many benefits that all this data can bring, first we need sensors that are easy to wear, durable, and low cost. Only then can we develop wearable Health Tech devices that will “disappear” into our lives and...
