by Amantha May | June 24, 2020 | Health
Manufacturing plants, warehouses, and other workplaces that require employees to perform physical labor are taking worker safety more seriously due to the virus crisis. The Reflex is a smart wearable created by KINETIC that monitors body mechanics to reduce the risk...
by Bruce Brown | June 22, 2020 | Health
We’ve written several times about new technologies designed to help dermatologists diagnose skin cancer. In 2017, we wrote about 3Derm System’s 3Derm handheld that primary care physicians use to take photos of marks on a patient’s skin to send to a...
by Amantha May | June 22, 2020 | Health
The middle school years present challenges for adolescent girls and those challenges can have a lasting impact on the way girls feel about themselves and their abilities. Moxie Girl, a new app designed for adolescents and teens, aims to help girls build confidence and...
by Bruce Brown | June 19, 2020 | Health, Medical
The unforeseen COVID-19 pandemic continues to shake the world, setting conditions for unexpected change. We have no absolute sense of when the pandemic will fade, disappear, or continue in a series of waves, but we see and hear about the tragedy and harm it causes....
by Amantha May | June 19, 2020 | Health
If your clothing could speak, what would it say? Researchers at Tufts University’s School of Engineering would like to empower wearable fabric to speak volumes about an individual’s health. The research team developed biomaterial-based inks that sense chemicals...
by Amantha May | June 17, 2020 | Health, Medical
Workplace wearables for social distancing continue to make headlines as more and more businesses reopen their operations. Tharsus, a UK-based maker of strategic machines, announced that they have developed a new, comprehensive social-distancing system called Bump....