by Alfred Poor | October 1, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News
Perpetual motion machines cannot exist, at least according to the Laws of Thermodynamics. Eventually, the energy will leak out and the machine will stop. But if you can provide a machine with an endless external source of energy — such as the sun — it...
by Alfred Poor | September 28, 2015 | Enabling Tech
As we’ve written before, adding the sense of touch to prosthetic hands is essential to provide the feedback that the wearer needs to make natural use of the device. Scientists at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have come up with a novel approach for a...
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by riddhi | September 17, 2015 | Enabling Tech, Health, Medical
Wearables have found a niche application in healthcare. Companies have come up with innovative ways to track key vital signs such as heart rate and measure fitness related data. Valencell is one such company that has patented biometric sensing technology which it...
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by Alfred Poor | September 15, 2015 | Enabling Tech
If you’re a frequent reader of Health Tech Insider, you may realize that we like to cover user interface technologies. This is because the tiny size of wearable Health Tech devices present significant challenges for the traditional user input strategies....
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by Alfred Poor | September 14, 2015 | Enabling Tech
One of the problems with wearable Health Tech devices is that they tend to be small. In fact, the smaller they are, the better because they are more likely to “disappear” into the wearer’s daily life. But as we’ve discussed before, this does...
by Alfred Poor | September 10, 2015 | Enabling Tech
You may be annoyed or amused by Siri, but get used to it; it may well be at the forefront of user interfaces for mobile devices. A new report from Tractica predicts that speech recognition will be in 82% of mobile electronic devices by 2020, nearly doubling its...
