New OTC Law Spawns AI-Calibrated Hearables [video]

by Bruce Brown | January 24, 2018 | General News, Health

Nuheara introduced hearables at CES 2018 that would not have been legal six months earlier. IQbuds Boost’s Ear ID hearing threshold calibration analysis software incorporates National Acoustics Labs’ NAL-NL2 self-fit protocol. NAL-NL2 is an international,...

AI App Describes the World to Visually Impaired [video]

by Bruce Brown | January 23, 2018 | General News, Health

Profound visual impairment in our increasingly visual world disenfranchises blind or partially sighted people. According to a statistic from the U.K.’s Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), sight loss costs the country nearly $6 billion annually due...

New Neurostim Wearables Prevent and Mitigate Migraines [video]

by Bruce Brown | January 22, 2018 | General News, Health

People who suffer from migraine headaches have two new devices to help. As we’ve noted before, approximately one-quarter of all U.S. households include a migraine sufferer. More than 12% of the population have migraines. Many people can detect an incipient...

Smart Glasses Enhance Pennsylvania Student’s Vision

by Bruce Brown | January 19, 2018 | General News, Health

Smart glasses such as the much-maligned Google Glass suffered a false start in the consumer market that tarnished the concept temporarily. When developers who assumed the highest and best use of augmented or enhanced reality (AR or ER)  was to give people a way to...

Wearable ECG Gets the Nod from FDA

by Bruce Brown | January 18, 2018 | General News, Health

FDA approval and clearance can take time, due to the multiple stages involved. We wrote about Biotricity’s Bioflux wearable ECG system in the past when one of its components was cleared by the FDA in 2016. Late in 2017, Biotricty announced it had passed the...

Battery-free UV Sensor Fits Fingernail

by Bruce Brown | January 16, 2018 | General News, Health

We’ve covered wearables that detect UV exposure several times. The positive correlation between UV overexposure and skin cancer prompts some people to cover up or slather themselves with sunscreen while others choose to stay out of the sun as much as possible....