by Alfred Poor | June 11, 2014 | Enabling Tech
Wearable computing devices must be small, lightweight, and energy efficient in order to be successful. When it comes to displaying information, the Google Glass is a prime example of what a head-mounted display can be. The lynchpin in such a design is the imager: a...
by Alfred Poor | June 10, 2014 | Enabling Tech, Medical
Researchers at the University of Texas, Dallas and the University of Tokyo have demonstrated ways to print transistors on plastic substrates that then can conform to structures in the body such as blood vessels, nerves, or tendons. This will make it possible to create...
by Alfred Poor | June 9, 2014 | Enabling Tech
One of the main goals of any wearable health and fitness device is to gather information so that it can be shared. One common way to share this data is to send it to some other device — such as a smartphone — over a wireless connection. There are...