Direct Brain Stimulation Provides Sense of Touch

by Alfred Poor | November 14, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

Patients with prosthetic limbs or spinal cord damage don’t have a sense of touch from their limbs to provide feedback about their position or movements. We’ve written about a number of different research projects working on this problem, and here is...

Exterior Brain Stimulation May Make Us Smarter

by Bruce Brown | November 9, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

The expression “put on your thinking cap” was first used in 1847 according to Merriam-Webster, referring to “a state or mood in which one thinks.” The results of recent military testing by the 711 Human Performance Wing at Wright-Patterson Air...

Biometrics for Better Patient IDs [video]

by Alfred Poor | November 9, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

  Electronic health records (EHR) are one of the key mandates of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). These systems offer many distinct advantages, such as making it easier for healthcare professionals to share data about a patient in order to improve diagnosis and...

Magnetic Ink Heals Itself When Broken [video]

by Alfred Poor | November 8, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

As I’ve often said, wearable devices have to “disappear” into the background of our lives. This means that you should have to strap on a wrist band or remember to carry something in your pocket or purse. One possible solution is the creation of...

New Technique for Implant Coatings

by Alfred Poor | November 7, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

The ultimate in “wearable” Health Tech is a device that we can carry around on the inside of our bodies. It’s not too difficult to use chemically-inert materials that don’t add potentially toxic chemicals within the body, but rejection is...

Self-Healing Batteries Work After Breaking

by Alfred Poor | October 28, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

Almost all wearable Health Tech devices require some form of power in order to operate. For the vast majority, this power must be in the form of an electrical current. When it comes to delivering electricity to a device that is not plugged in, the most common solution...