by Alfred Poor | October 23, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical
Surgery is not an exact science. Doctors can study anatomy all they want, but as a practical matter, every patient is a little different. And when you’re trying to remove a cancer tumor, there’s no textbook that can show you precisely what you’re...
by Alfred Poor | October 21, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical, Uncategorized
Liquid crystals were discovered nearly 150 years ago, though it was not until 1962 that they were viewed as a way to create flat panel displays. The cigar-shaped molecules have the useful characteristic of aligning with each other under normal circumstances, but will...
by Alfred Poor | October 16, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health, Medical
The Masters in Health Administration at George Washington University (MHA@GW) held an online Google Hangout panel discussion about wearable Health Tech devices and how they be used effectively in healthcare. The organizers have posted a replay of the session, as well...
by Alfred Poor | October 15, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News
One of the gateways to low-cost wearable Health Tech devices is printed electronics. It’s not enough to just print electrodes and conductive substrates; we need to be able to print the logical components required to perform the digital electronic functions...
by riddhi | October 12, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News
Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMs) technology is behind the sensors that can sense and process information about their surrounding environment. They are one factor in the boom in the wearable market, as they become more accurate and smaller at a lower cost than...
by Alfred Poor | October 8, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News
One particularly knotty problem for wearables is the question of how to make a useful display. Most companies follow the same model that has been used for wristwatches for more than 100 years; take a rigid display and attach it to a flexible band so that it can be...
