by Bruce Brown | September 26, 2022 | Enabling Tech
We know that large, well-known companies such as Abbot, Medtronic, and Withings bring new digital health tech products to market. Small start-up companies with a new idea often lack sufficient resources to take those ideas all the way through design, development,...
by William McCleary | September 26, 2022 | Enabling Tech
Yes, “zombie bacteria” is a real thing; it’s a phrase that was coined over a decade ago to label technically dead microbial bacteria that feeds on organic compounds. For the world of wearables, what these proteobacteria consume is less compelling...
by William McCleary | September 21, 2022 | Enabling Tech
Smaller and much cheaper to produce. That’s what researchers at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) are saying about their new coin-sized biosensing system that reads the body’s electrochemical signals. Intended for use in a...
by Bruce Brown | September 19, 2022 | Enabling Tech
Is there any limit to the biodata attainable from sweat? Apparently not, at least that’s the implication from Caltech’s Cherng Department of Medical Engineering. Led by assistant professor Wei Gao, the Caltech team published a report explaining their...
by William McCleary | September 19, 2022 | Enabling Tech
There’s lots of data in your breath. And the Boston-area start-up Calibre Biometrics set out to harvest that information with a device that tracks respiratory and metabolic metrics in real-time. Together with the design firm Design 1st, they’ve created...
by William McCleary | September 16, 2022 | Enabling Tech, Medical
Fertility tracking and COVID-19 detection may have more in common that one might assume. That connection prompted a study using the Ava bracelet, which is FDA-cleared for the U.S. market and CE-certified for Europe. Designed for fertility monitoring, the device tracks...
