De-Stress Bathroom Visits with D Free[video]

by Bruce Brown | September 6, 2016 | Health

The stress and embarrassment of the unexpected sudden need for a bowel movement can be severe enough to keep people from leaving home or otherwise engaging in normal lifestyles. Triple W is a tech company co-located in Tokyo and Los Altos, California. The company...

New Technology Monitors Cognitive Health Through Speech

by Alfred Poor | September 6, 2016 | Health, Medical

As our population ages, our society faces the challenges of how to support and care for our older citizens. For many good reasons — not the least of which are saving on healthcare and other costs — seniors want to live independently in their own homes as...

Withings HR Steel Smart Watch Combines Analog with Digital

by Bruce Brown | September 5, 2016 | Health

A technology and application crossover produce just emerged as the first product of a new health tech union. Earlier this year Finnish communications giant Nokia, searching for a new direction after selling its mobile phone business to Microsoft, bought French health...

Samsung WELT Tells You When You’re Getting Fat [video]

by Bruce Brown | September 1, 2016 | Health

If you’re out to dinner and decide to just let go and overeat, you can always just loosen your belt a notch and no one will be the wiser, right? Well, you won’t get away with it with a Welt Corporation WELT. The WELT belt tracks your waist size, steps,...

Medical Grade Heart Rate Monitoring off the Top of Your Head [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 31, 2016 | General News, Health

Whether you’re tracking your heart rate for general fitness or for a more specific wellness concern, there are many choices. You can wear wristbands, armbands, or even chest straps which many have considered the most accurate, if not the most comfortable. Now...

Sleep Optimization and Doziness Alert on Your Wrist [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 29, 2016 | General News, Health

Sleep insufficiency hasn’t gone away, no matter how much we write about it. We’ve covered Health Tech that purports to help with sleep by controlling brainwaves, with smart earplugs, by cutting down on social media use, by reducing blue light exposure,...