Better Battery Cuts Costs [video]

by Alfred Poor | June 26, 2015 | Enabling Tech

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, lithium-ion batteries are possibly the worst of all battery technologies, except for all others that have been tried. They hold a lot of electricity in a small space, but they are expensive to make and are responsible for occasionally...

Low-Power Motion Sensor Chip

by Alfred Poor | June 23, 2015 | Enabling Tech

One of the most important questions that just about any wearable Health Tech device can ask itself is “Where am I?” This simple question is key to so many important pieces of information: whether the wearer at motion or rest, how much distance has been...

New Sensor Chip to Harvest Power [video]

by Alfred Poor | June 18, 2015 | Enabling Tech

The dream system for monitoring a person’s biometric data is a network of always-on sensors distributed around the body, generating all sorts of useful data ranging from vital signs to the levels of different compounds in the blood or tissues. One of the keys to...

Sensors for Wearables Continue to Grow

by Alfred Poor | June 11, 2015 | Enabling Tech

Think about it for a minute. If the numbers of cars sold each year grows by a certain number of units, the number of tires sold will increase by four times that amount. That’s because each car needs four tires (at least). The same thing is happening with...

New WiFi Chip Saves Power

by Alfred Poor | June 10, 2015 | Enabling Tech

One of the reasons that wearable Health Tech devices have become so valuable is that they can take advantage of wireless data communications technology. Driven by demand for features in smartphones, tiny wireless transceivers have become inexpensive. Different...

EHR Incentive Program Mandates Patient-Generated Data

by Alfred Poor | June 9, 2015 | Enabling Tech, Health, Medical

You probably have noticed by now that your physicians and hospitals and other clinical healthcare providers are using electronic health records (EHR) to gather, store, and report your health data. You may also have noticed that they are also encouraging you to log...