Another Non-Contact Digital Health Player Steps to the Plate [Video]

by Bruce Brown | July 26, 2021 | Enabling Tech

During the past few years, we’ve written about a variety of contact-free digital health screening and diagnostic technologies. For example, earlier this year we wrote about Donisi’s FDA de novo clearance for its contact-free medical grade multiparameter...

Measure Pressure in All Directions With 3D-Printed Sensor

by Alfred Poor | July 26, 2021 | Enabling Tech

3D printing continues to disrupt many traditional industries by making complex objects easy and quick to produce with little or no waste. And the design can be changed with a few lines of code, rather than wait to make extensive tooling. We’ve seen many health...

New Knee Implant Is Custom 3D Printed for Each Patient

by Amantha May | July 19, 2021 | Enabling Tech, Medical

Knee osteoarthritis affects around 10% to 14% of adults in the United States. In the United Kingdom, the estimated prevalence is even higher at 15% to 19% of individuals over age 20. Knee Osteoarthritis causes debilitating chronic pain and loss of mobility that affect...

Safer Robot Assistants Respond to Unexpected Human Behavior [video]

by Amantha May | July 16, 2021 | Enabling Tech

“Normality; show me normality, Señor Caballero, and I will show you an exception to the abnormal order of the universe; show me a normal event and I shall call it miraculous because it is normal.” Those words, written by celebrated Mexican author Carlos...

Smartphones to Detect Disease from Voice Samples

by Alfred Poor | July 15, 2021 | Enabling Tech, Health

We’ve written many times about how digital voice samples can be used to diagnose or detect disease and conditions ranging from depression to asthma, from COPD to COVID-19. This is a triumph of mobile technology and artificial intelligence. But now comes news...

New Wearable Harvests Fingertip Sweat for Power [video]

by Amantha May | July 14, 2021 | Enabling Tech

University of California San Diego engineers have developed a wearable device that harvests energy from sweat produced by a fingertip. The flexible device wraps around the finger like a band aid. It can harvest energy when the wearer is at rest or in motion. Finger...