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....

CES 2021: New Non-Contact Sensors Can Track Through Walls [video]

by Bruce Brown | January 5, 2021 | Enabling Tech

Applications for motion-sensing abound. The ability to track movement of people or objects comes in handy in industrial safety, security, smart buildings, and more. We’ve written about Vayyar’s solid state radio frequency monitors for several years....

Robot Arms Controlled by Just by Thinking [video]

by Amantha May | January 1, 2021 | Enabling Tech

Two years ago, Robert “Buz” Chmielewski underwent a 10-hour operation, during which surgeons implanted six electrodes in his brain. Within a few months of the operation, Chmielewski could control two robotic arms using only his thoughts, transmitted...

CES 2021: Connected Cap Brings EEG to the Home [video]

by Amantha May | December 30, 2020 | Enabling Tech

Last year, biotech startup iMediSync devoted a booth at CES 2020 to its signature product, a clinical, AI-driven platform for quantitative analysis of electroencephalography (qEEG), called iSyncBrain. This year, the company will showcase iSyncWave, a portable brain...

Stretchy, Durable, Sensitive New E-Skin

by Amantha May | December 18, 2020 | Enabling Tech

In the quest to develop a reliable artificial skin sensor, engineers face three primary concerns–sensitivity and durability. Researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia have developed an electronic skin that performs...