by Alfred Poor | February 1, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health, Medical, Podcast
Health Tech Insider Editor Alfred Poor continues his coverage of wearable technology at CES 2017, with a smart mouthguard for athletes that detects head impacts, and a wireless device that can see through walls that could provide aging-in-place monitoring services for...
by Alfred Poor | January 31, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Two of the big themes for wearable Health Tech these days are accuracy and lower power. Companies are raising the bar higher and higher on what is acceptable accuracy for wearable devices. And users want devices that last longer between charges, but at the same time...
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by Bruce Brown | January 30, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
The rapid growth of the wearable technology market continues, triggered by advances in sensors, battery technology, structural supports, and data analysis software including big data and neural net deep machine learning. Without market acknowledgment, acceptance, and...
by Bruce Brown | January 27, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Is it a freckle, a benign cancer, or a malignant time bomb about to go off? Dermatologists train in part by looking at thousands of images of skin abnormalities as one part of their diagnostic training. Doctors use much more than a single image to make their...
by Bruce Brown | January 26, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Our vision changes with age. Even if we have perfect vision in our youth and young adulthood, by 45 the aging process typically starts to gradually degrade our eyes’ ability to focus accurately. The degradation is a gradual process which means there are two...
by Alfred Poor | January 25, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health, Medical, Podcast
Health Tech Insider Editor Alfred Poor shares more observations about wearables at CES 2017. In this episode, he describes a new service that uses augmented reality (AR) glasses to provide a sighted companion on demand for blind people, and a product that converts any...
