by Alfred Poor | April 14, 2021 | Enabling Tech, General News
You’ve spent a beautiful day hiking up and down mountain trails, and as you stop to set up camp for the night, you take off your backpack and plug your smartphone into it to recharge. Or you can use that electricity to power wearables or other health tech...
by Amantha May | February 8, 2021 | General News
A new Temperature Scanning System showcased at CES 2021 has won a 2021 BIG Innovation Award. Presented by the Business Intelligence Group, the award recognizes the radio frequency-based system by Powercast as a product with the potential to improve community health....
by Bruce Brown | January 26, 2021 | General News, Health
Taiwan-based Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) made a big splash at the first all-digital CES 2021 this year. ITRI showed a variety of biosensing devices in CES virtual showrooms including iCardioGuard. iCardioGuard uses multi-sensing microwave and...
by Bruce Brown | January 8, 2021 | General News
AI-powered hearables continued to be an important part of CES in 2021. Last year we wrote about Phonax’s Audeo Paradise hearing aids that use AI for continuous environment sensing and to focus microphone sensitivity in the direction of people with whom you are...
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by Amantha May | November 6, 2020 | General News, Health
Lower back support apparel can help prevent back injuries, especially for workers in jobs that require heavy lifting, but it doesn’t alleviate muscle fatigue which is a key source of back pain and an injury precursor. Vanderbilt University engineers have designed an...
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by Amantha May | November 4, 2020 | Enabling Tech, General News
Delivering drugs to a specific internal organ often affects other organs along the way, causing side-effects and reducing the amount of medication that reaches the target area. To address this issue, researchers at Purdue University have designed a tiny robot that...
