by Alfred Poor | March 9, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
The future of wearable Health Tech devices depends on their ability to get under our skin. Implants are the shortest distance to reliable, always-on biometric sensing and other interactive tasks. One important barrier to this future is the size of the device. Larger...
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by Bruce Brown | March 8, 2016 | General News, Health
So let’s talk about getting wasted on alcohol. When is a drinker drunk? Have you ever tried to talk reason to someone you know was getting too loaded for their own good, let alone too drunk to drive? It’s generally a losing game if they’re too far...
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by Alfred Poor | March 8, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
What are you looking at in the photo above? It’s a sheet of plastic with electrical conductors on its surface. These traces connect LEDs to a power source, and you can see that the electricity is reaching them because they are glowing green. So far, so what?...
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by Bruce Brown | March 7, 2016 | General News, Health
Insufficient sleep is common and that’s not a good thing. According to the Centers of Disease Control (CDC) as many as one in four people in the U.S. report that they don’t get enough sleep and approximately 10% have chronic insomnia. We have previously...
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by Alfred Poor | March 7, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Long-time readers of Health Tech Insider know that we pay a lot of attention to the user interface for wearable devices. There’s no one right answer; touch, gesture, speech recognition, and even brain-hardware interfaces all have a part to play. Still,...
![Fast Oxygen Level Management [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/03/MyOxy-with-video-600x274.jpg?resize=600%2C274)
by Bruce Brown | March 4, 2016 | General News, Health
Chronic respiratory disease is a terrifying condition both individually and worldwide. When you’re short of breath even for a few seconds, it’s uncomfortable and often scary. Imagine how it would be to feel that way all the time. According to a report by...
