Helmet-Mounted Sensor Measures Impacts [video]

by Bruce Brown | September 7, 2016 | General News, Health

U.S. hospitals treat more than 173,285 sports-related brain injuries and concussions annually, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Concussions account for fully 15 percent of all reported injuries, says the American Journal of Sports...

Medical Grade Heart Rate Monitoring off the Top of Your Head [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 31, 2016 | General News, Health

Whether you’re tracking your heart rate for general fitness or for a more specific wellness concern, there are many choices. You can wear wristbands, armbands, or even chest straps which many have considered the most accurate, if not the most comfortable. Now...

Origami Meets Nanotechnology in Stretchy Supercaps

by Alfred Poor | August 31, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

Power storage for wearable devices poses problems. The ideal solution would pack a lot of energy in a small package, be flexible, be stretchable, and could discharge or recharge rapidly. Unfortunately, that does not describe your typical battery technology....

iPads as Effective as Sedatives for Children Prior to Anesthesia

by Bruce Brown | August 30, 2016 | General News, Medical

  As many parents of small children can tell you, hand a tablet or smartphone to a cranky kid and let them watch a video or play with an app to calm them down. As it turns out, there may be a medical application for this same solution. Pediatric surgery typically...

Octobot Autonomous Robot Is Soft [video]

by Alfred Poor | August 30, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

Take 3D printing technology, add some clever chemistry, and you have the recipe for a “soft” autonomous robot that can move without being tethered to an external power source. In fact, it does not contain any electronics at all. This marvel was created by...

Sleep Optimization and Doziness Alert on Your Wrist [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 29, 2016 | General News, Health

Sleep insufficiency hasn’t gone away, no matter how much we write about it. We’ve covered Health Tech that purports to help with sleep by controlling brainwaves, with smart earplugs, by cutting down on social media use, by reducing blue light exposure,...