by Bruce Brown | March 21, 2022 | Enabling Tech
The wearables market’s tremendous growth during the past decade continues to drive research and innovation. In its report Wearables Sensors 2021-2031, IDTechEx predicts that the annual market for sensors used in wearables will be greater than $5 billion by 2025....
by William McCleary | March 21, 2022 | Enabling Tech
Can a machine have a tender touch? It would seem so with the emerging tech from a team at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (MPI-IS); they’ve developed a sensor for a robotic thumb that closely approximates human touch using a unique approach to...
by William McCleary | March 16, 2022 | Enabling Tech
Can a man-made device “see?” That answer may literally be in the eye of the beholder and close to a reality as a cutting-edge artificial electronic retina can already mirror the dynamics and functionality of human sight to an uncanny degree. It’s...
by Alfred Poor | March 10, 2022 | Enabling Tech
One of our basic beliefs here at Health Tech Insider is that wearables and other devices won’t succeed at scale until they “disappear” into our lives. Too many devices require that users fuss with them: keep them charged, update the software, pair...
by Alfred Poor | March 9, 2022 | Enabling Tech, Medical
One of the elusive holy grails of health tech is a non-invasive measurement of blood glucose levels. We’ve been writing about developments in this field since at least 2015, but we still do not have an FDA-cleared solution. Unfortunately, the general media is...
by Amantha May | March 4, 2022 | Enabling Tech
Draw the drapes and watch TV on them. Let your carpet power your home electronics. Tell your shirt to send messages to your friend’s socks. Sure, all that sounds a bit like an off-the-wall sci-fi movie, but multifunction smart textiles aren’t just a futuristic fantasy...
