Low-Cost Materials Create Flexible Sensors

by Alfred Poor | February 25, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

Sticky notes, aluminum foil, sponges, tape: it sounds like the recipe for a MacGyver escape device, but it’s not. In a field dominated by high-tech processes and painstakingly-engineered materials, a group of researchers have come up with a low cost design for...

Wearable Personal Posture Coach [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 24, 2016 | General News, Health

Do you have forward neck? I do. It’s also called forward posture or sometimes text neck. This condition is common among people who read and increasingly so with folks who spend lots of time using computers or craned over smartphones and tablets. Forward head is...

New Chip Sips Power to Store Sensor Data

by Alfred Poor | February 24, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

Wearable devices for Health Tech applications generally rely on digital electronic sensors to gather data about the wearer. This data than gets processed and reported in ways that ideally will monitor the subject’s health and provide indications of what...

Personal Laser Hair Loss Treatment [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 23, 2016 | General News, Health

Full disclosure here: I’m a male. Like 70% of males overall, I have male pattern baldness with a receding hairline and thinning on the temples and top of my head. I am fortunate because my hair loss is a result of testosterone in my system, which is a natural...

University Requires Fitness Bands for Students

by Alfred Poor | February 23, 2016 | Fitness, General News, Health

The Quantified Self: it’s a major goal of the wearable Health Tech industry. If we knew more about the bodies of more individuals and their health outcomes, we could detect disease sooner, discover which treatments are truly most effective, lower healthcare...

Implantable Kidney Replacement [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 22, 2016 | General News, Medical

According a report from The National Kidney Foundation in 2012, it costs $87 billion a year to care for patients with kidney disease, not counting medication. With more than 100,000 kidney donors on the list for transplants, last year only about 17,000 patients...