Wearable Cuff Senses Gestures To Control Prosthetics [video]

by Amantha May | February 12, 2021 | Enabling Tech

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have created a wearable biosensor device that recognizes hand gestures. Still in development, the UC team believes the device could eventually give patients control over prosthetic hands and other artificial body...

CES 2021: 3D Print New Bone Right in the Patient’s Body [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 8, 2021 | Enabling Tech

This is hair-standing technology. Can you Imagine having surgery and during the procedure, technicians scan an area of your bones that have missing or depleted bone tissue? And then — this is the part that tightened the follicles on my lower arms — during...

Graphene SuperCap Harvests Power for Wearables

by Amantha May | February 5, 2021 | Enabling Tech

You’re just about to start your workout. You tap your smartwatch, ready to track your heart rate, steps, distance, calories, and so many other juicy health data metrics. But alas, you forgot to charge your device, and now your staring at a useless black hole strapped...

CES 2021: AI Security Cameras Understand Your Moves

by Bruce Brown | February 2, 2021 | Enabling Tech

We don’t typically write about security products on Health Tech Insider. EyeVerify’s Eyeprint ID was an early exception in 2015 based on its potential application to protect personal health data user on a user’s smartphone. Beseye’s...

CES 2021: See What Others Cannot with These Smart Contacts

by Bruce Brown | January 25, 2021 | Enabling Tech

Many of us spend much of our time looking at screens while we work, recreate, and communicate with friends and family. It may not be that big a leap to adapt to smart contact lens wearables that could replace our handheld screens. We’ve covered smart lens...

CES 2021: New Game Device Uses Brain Signals to Speed Mouse Clicks [video]

by Amantha May | January 13, 2021 | Enabling Tech

Gaming can be the low-hanging fruit that enables advances in health tech, such as the low-cost VR systems that have made new therapeutic treatments possible. Impulse, a new neural mouse introduced at CES 2021, shows promise in the next chapter of that history....