Roll Your Own Wearable Device [video]

by Alfred Poor | October 7, 2014 | Enabling Tech

  Do you have a hankering to create your own wearable Health Tech devices? If you’ve got that MAKER spirit, then Arduino has some good news for you; at Maker Faire Rome, the company previewed the Arduino Gemma which is the product of a collaboration with...

IHS Predicts 800 Million Wearable Displays by 2023

by Alfred Poor | October 3, 2014 | Enabling Tech

The market tracking firm IHS forecasts rapid growth in displays for wearable devices. Not all devices need a display, but for many categories — such as smartwatches — the display more or less defines the user’s interaction with the system. A rigid...

“No-Power” Devices Driven by WiFi [video]

by Alfred Poor | October 2, 2014 | Enabling Tech

The future of wearable Health Tech is all about data: collecting it, distributing it, analyzing it, and using it to drive better choices about our personal activities and treatment of health conditions including heart disease, diabetes, and more. One of the big...

Company Aims to Disrupt Wearables with Tiny Mics

by Alfred Poor | October 1, 2014 | Enabling Tech

One of the most important sensors in a mobile or wearable device can be a microphone. Without it, a telephone can’t hear you when you speak. Wearable devices can not only process spoken information, but can also work with ambient noises in the wearer’s...

Flexible Fabric Conducts Electricity [video]

by Alfred Poor | September 29, 2014 | Enabling Tech

Scientists from the Institute of Textiles and Clothing at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in China have developed a new way to create flexible and stretchable devices. As published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society,  they have developed computerized...

UC Davis Helps Build Broadband Use for Health Tech

by Alfred Poor | September 24, 2014 | Enabling Tech

The potential benefits of wearable Health Tech devices and the data that they can produce are enticing. The idea of some intelligent device communicating valuable health and medical data to users and their healthcare professionals has a lot of appeal. The devil is in...