1 Million Hours of Health Data

by Alfred Poor | August 9, 2016 | General News, Health

While wearable Health Tech devices can help individuals directly, one big part of their potential is the creation of Big Data sets that can be mined for information that will benefit the population as a whole. The data from these connected devices is beginning to pile...

Is Neurostimulation Effective? [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 8, 2016 | General News, Health

Medical experts disagree about the efficacy and even the safety of neurostimulation, where electrical currents are sent through a subject’s head. In spite of the controversy, or perhaps because of it, MIT Technology Review featured an article about Halo...

Supercapacitors Printed by Inkjet

by Alfred Poor | August 8, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

How do you power a wearable device? Most of them require electricity, which must be stored so that it is available when needed. But batteries are problematic. They can be bulky, rigid, and filled with messy liquids that can cause trouble if they leak. One promising...

Wearable HIV ‘Trap’ Helps African Women Protect Themselves

by Bruce Brown | August 5, 2016 | General News, Health

HIV remains at epidemic levels in Africa. The highest levels in the world persist in sub-Saharan Africa where the combination of tuberculosis and AIDs causes the greatest number of deaths. Cultural factors including men’s resistance to condoms and widespread...

Plasma Drives 3D Space Printer

by Alfred Poor | August 5, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

You don’t see this in your typical science fiction space Western movie, but the fact is that stuff wears out and breaks. People traveling to Mars aren’t going to be able to carry enough spare parts to fix everything; they’re going to need a way to...

Monitor Your Insides with Neural Dust [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 4, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

Real-time monitoring of our muscles, nerves, and organs without living inside an MRI machine sounds like a fantasy awaiting some future generation of science. But University of California, Berkeley engineers cracked the code to monitoring from the inside. The key to...