Shoe Harvests Energy for Wearables

by Alfred Poor | February 17, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

Wearable sensors and related devices are at the heart of the Health Tech revolution, but the question of how to power these systems remains without an optimal answer. One of the attractive solutions is to harvest energy from the surrounding environment to eliminate...

Multifunction Megachip Ready to Power Wearables

by Bruce Brown | February 16, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

The Health Tech ramp up is extending ever higher in anticipation of great demand and huge market opportunities with consumers and healthcare professionals. With the B2C and B2B opportunities, major companies that you might not expect to see in Health Tech — such...

Scientists Create “Bionic Spine” Implant [video]

by Alfred Poor | February 16, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical

One of the most tragic injuries is damage to the spinal cord; the result can be paralysis that leaves the victim trapped forever in a body that will not respond to commands to make it move. When the connection between the brain and body is broken, it is nearly...

Alfred Poor on Slashdot about CES 2016 [video]

by Alfred Poor | February 15, 2016 | Enabling Tech, Fitness, General News, Health, Medical

Just when you thought you were safe from the seemingly endless coverage of CES 2016, here comes a bonus video footnote. This is a video of an interview for Slashdot in which I discuss some of the items I saw at CES 2016 in Las Vegas last month, along with some of the...

Your Personal Dental Assistant [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 15, 2016 | General News, Health

Drink eight glasses of water a day. Chew your food 30 times. Brush your teeth for two minutes twice a day. Growing up we probably all heard these nuggets of conventional wisdom about drinking, chewing, and brushing. Maybe we followed the rules or maybe we...

Breath Test for Glucose Levels

by Alfred Poor | February 15, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical

According to the International Diabetes Federation, 415 million people worldwide have diabetes; that amounts to one of every 11 adults. It is not an overstatement that this disease has reached epidemic proportions, costing as much as $1.45 trillion in healthcare...