by Bruce Brown | November 28, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
The very early typing machine at the top of this article represented a significant advance for the written word. Without pushing the comparison too far, Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently introduced a natural language processing service developed to transform...
by Bruce Brown | November 22, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Do you remember when your parents told you to get moving, that just thinking about something doesn’t get it done? Brain-computer interface (BCI) experts are proving that thinking about tasks can be more powerful than our parents ever expected. Thinking...
by Bruce Brown | November 21, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
It’s neither our practice nor our inclination to write about health tech developers who abandon projects or new tech attempts that fail. Because Google’s health tech division Verily and Novartis’ Alcon eye-care division are the primary participants...
by Bruce Brown | November 16, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Wearable health tech devices spur the search for new types of power sources. We’ve written about flexible batteries that can be cut into shapes from Nanyang Technological University, stretchable batteries embedded in garments developed at Binghamton University,...
by Bruce Brown | November 15, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
The health tech wearables that we write about typically combine one or more integrated biosensors with battery-powered wireless transmitters to send biometric data elsewhere to be stored and analyzed, usually to a smartphone. Such devices come in a myriad of form...
by Bruce Brown | November 8, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Artificial intelligence is coming into its own in medical applications at an increasingly rapid pace. We’ve seen reports of impressive results from deep-learning machine language diagnostic studies from research groups worldwide. Most recently we wrote about a...