by Bruce Brown | January 26, 2021 | General News, Health
Taiwan-based Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) made a big splash at the first all-digital CES 2021 this year. ITRI showed a variety of biosensing devices in CES virtual showrooms including iCardioGuard. iCardioGuard uses multi-sensing microwave and...
by Bruce Brown | January 8, 2021 | General News
AI-powered hearables continued to be an important part of CES in 2021. Last year we wrote about Phonax’s Audeo Paradise hearing aids that use AI for continuous environment sensing and to focus microphone sensitivity in the direction of people with whom you are...
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by Amantha May | November 6, 2020 | General News, Health
Lower back support apparel can help prevent back injuries, especially for workers in jobs that require heavy lifting, but it doesn’t alleviate muscle fatigue which is a key source of back pain and an injury precursor. Vanderbilt University engineers have designed an...
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by Amantha May | November 4, 2020 | Enabling Tech, General News
Delivering drugs to a specific internal organ often affects other organs along the way, causing side-effects and reducing the amount of medication that reaches the target area. To address this issue, researchers at Purdue University have designed a tiny robot that...
by Bruce Brown | November 3, 2020 | General News, Medical
You might want to file this news under the heading “Silver Lining.” According to a new report by U.K.-based Juniper Research, the COVID-19 pandemic will be a major factor in the projected massive worldwide growth in digital therapeutics and wellness app...
by Amantha May | November 2, 2020 | Enabling Tech, General News
Flexible sensors, like the ones used in skin patches, offer a more precise and comfortable health monitoring option than larger wearable devices with rigid electrodes and wires. Expanding on these advantages, researchers at the Penn State Department of Engineering...
