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...
by Alfred Poor | March 19, 2020 | Enabling Tech
As the old joke goes, what do you call a device that stores a lot of energy in a very small space? You call it “a bomb.” Aside from blowing things up, storing more energy is an important goal in improving everything from wearable health tech devices to...
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by Bruce Brown | March 18, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Brain-computer interfaces figure in much of the research and development in new prosthetics technology. We’ve written about work mind-controlled prosthetics often, including the BrainGate consortium’s work with a mind-controlled mouse for people with...
by Bruce Brown | March 5, 2020 | Enabling Tech
“This is my heartbeat song and I’m gonna play it.” Kelly Clarkson may have been onto something when she wrote the lyrics to “Heartbeat Song.” The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently published details of a...
by Alfred Poor | February 27, 2020 | Enabling Tech, Health
Healthcare resources are being stretched further and further, leaving holes in care that require novel approaches to address. Tasks that were performed by people in the past are now being handled by machines, and perhaps the most novel machines of all are the robots....
by Bruce Brown | February 19, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Research and developments in energy harvesting to power implants and wearables continues to explore fascinating technologies. We’ve written about harvesting energy from human knee motion at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and from carbon nanotube yarn...
