Don’t Shoot That Drone, It May Be Delivering Medical Supplies

by Bruce Brown | April 19, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

The niftiest new Health Tech can’t help you much if you’re in a remote location or stranded with no way to travel. Technology developments in other fields may soon be ready to come to the rescue, however. Google just received a patent for a “Request...

Company Developing Tracking Patch without GPS

by Alfred Poor | April 19, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

One of the simplest functions of a wearable device is to simply announce “I am here.” Yet this simple operation can have a wide range of practical applications. Attached to a car or other valuable object, it can tell you where to find it if it is misplaced...

Photonic e-skin Displays Biometric Readings on Your Body [video]

by Bruce Brown | April 18, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

Researchers have made rapid advances in wearable Health Tech to measure biomedical elements such as blood oxygen levels, heart rate, blood glucose, and blood pressure. These developments have increased the demand for ever smaller and more convenient physical devices....

Enterprise Embraces Wearables

by Alfred Poor | April 18, 2016 | Fitness, General News, Health

One of my favorite (if apocryphal) quotes is the answer that the notorious bank robber Willy Sutton gave when asked why he robbed banks: “Because that’s where the money is!” If you want to look for the growth in any industry, whether it’s...

MIT’s GI Pill Janus Sticks to Your Innards

by Bruce Brown | April 15, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

Efficient and effective in-patient drug delivery technology is a challenge. Some diseases and conditions such as malaria and tuberculosis call for pills multiple times a day, which makes compliance tougher when relying on patients to take the medication on time the...

Ramping Up Production of Wearable Insulin Device [video]

by Alfred Poor | April 15, 2016 | General News, Medical

About 5 million people in the U.S. have type 2 diabetes, but none of them can use the wearable PAQ insulin infusion device from CeQur. Yet. That’s because the device has not yet received FDA clearance for use in the U.S., though it has received CE approval in...