Headspace to Clear Your Mind [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 12, 2016 | General News, Health

  Not everyone agrees that meditation can improve one’s quality of life. Last year’s study of studies by Johns Hopkins Medicine, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, found that meditation worked about as well as prescription drugs for relieving...

Not All Tele-Health Research Results Are Rosy

by Alfred Poor | February 12, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical

If patients can monitor their own vital signs and other biometric data at home, and share this with healthcare professionals, we will be able to detect illness earlier, resulting in better treatment, lower costs, and better outcomes. At least, that’s what the...

Hardware Learns to See the Light [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 11, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

Let’s face it; gadgets, hardware, and devices are sexy. Software and user interfaces (UIs) don’t often get much attention, at least not until we’re confronted with faulty software and an awkward UI. Even though software does the heavy lifting of...

Smartphone App Diagnoses Coughs [video]

by Alfred Poor | February 11, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical

Your child has a cough. Is it serious, or will it just get better on its own? Is it a simple cough from a cold, or is it asthma or pneumonia or some other condition that needs professional medical attention? If you’re a parent, you’ve probably been through...

When One Puff Isn’t Enough, Noninvasive Glaucoma Progression Monitoring [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 10, 2016 | General News, Medical

When you get your eyes checked, you get to read rows of tiny numbers and make a bunch of “Better A, or better B?” choices as the technician or doctor tests selected pairs of lenses to get your subjective feedback. Chances are good that you also rest your...

Prosthetic Hand Obeys Multiple Inputs [video]

by Alfred Poor | February 10, 2016 | General News, Health

Wearable technology comes in a variety of shapes, sizes, and levels of complexity. Perhaps the most complex are the powered prosthetic limbs that aim to replace the functions of human hands. We’ve written about other projects (such as the open-source HACKberry...