3D Printed Microscope [video]

by Bruce Brown | May 7, 2020 | Enabling Tech

New 3D-printed devices continue to amaze us. The earliest 3-D printed medical devices were rudimentary prosthetics. More recent (and mind-blowing) applications include living skin complete with blood vessels developed at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Center for...

Brain-Computer Interface Restores Touch [video]

by Bruce Brown | May 5, 2020 | Enabling Tech

Researchers at Battelle and The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center published a study that documented a brain-computer interface (BCI) breakthrough. We’ve written about BCI multiple in multiple articles. Most of the research with BCI centers on training...

Virtual Resident Physician Expands Telehealth Scale

by Bruce Brown | April 28, 2020 | Enabling Tech

COVID-19 threatens to overwhelm our healthcare systems. In many cases, healthcare personnel cannot keep up with the influx of patients. Help may be on the way, however. A company has launched a new app that relies on telehealth to screen patients based on their...

Enlisting Bacteria as 24/7 Biosensors

by Bruce Brown | April 23, 2020 | Enabling Tech

Harvesting host energy to power biosensors is an efficient way to keep wearables and injectables running, at least in theory. We wrote about recent work at ETRI on a thermoelectric module that generates energy to power sensors from human body heat. In 2019 we covered...

Smart Bandages Improve Healing without Scarring

by Bruce Brown | April 20, 2020 | Enabling Tech, Medical

Smart bandages are a hot topic in wearable tech development. Recent smart bandage designs differ in specific applications, but typically share two functions: wound monitoring and treatment delivery. We wrote about MIT’s smart bandage that releases medication...

Essence Group Doubles Down on IoT Device Security

by Bruce Brown | April 3, 2020 | Enabling Tech

Privacy issues continue to shape the wearables industry. In 2014 we wrote about a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) study finding that wearable users were extremely concerned about the use of patient-contributed data. The FTC took a stance on the...