by Bruce Brown | April 8, 2021 | Health
“You need to exercise more and eat healthier food.” It’s pretty easy for family and friends, colleagues at work, and medical professionals to give that advice. For the recipient, however, the message can be a slow one-two punch. The first blow...
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by Bruce Brown | April 7, 2021 | Health
We had to make an exception. We don’t normally feature crowd-funded wearables on Health Tech Insider. As a rule we prefer to cover technology available today or under development in university labs or by established medical/wellness enterprises. We don’t...
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by Amantha May | April 5, 2021 | Health
A smiling robot that captures the attention of autistic children can help them learn and practice social, emotional, and cognitive skills. QTrobot for Home, a talking playmate initially designed for use in schools and researchers, can now help parents work with...
by Bruce Brown | April 2, 2021 | Health, Medical
It appears that Millennials aren’t the only generation flocking to adopt mobile health tech devices. Most Baby Boomers also spend a significant portion of their waking hours looking at screens on their smartphones and other mobile devices. The American Heart...
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by Bruce Brown | March 31, 2021 | Enabling Tech, Health
Helping visually impaired persons navigate the world around them is a noble mission indeed. We wrote recently about work at Caltech using augmented reality with Microsoft HoloLens to help blind people navigate. Envision Glasses use an AI platform with an 8MB camera, a...
by Bruce Brown | March 30, 2021 | Health
Hearables are the fastest-growing wearables category, besting smart watches, wristbands, and streaming-audio-only earbuds, according to IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker report. After the U.S. Senate approved the Over-the-Counter Hearing...
