CES 2015: Wireless System Helps Seniors at Home [video]

by Alfred Poor | January 20, 2015 | Health, Medical

Countries around the world face a growing elderly population. Once of the challenges is to keep healthcare costs down for this group, while also affording them the opportunity to live as independently as they choose. Providing security and health monitoring for...

CES 2015: A New Look for Smart Glasses [video]

by Alfred Poor | January 19, 2015 | Fitness, Health, Medical

Smart glasses are for nerds. They look goofy, and they’re incredibly expensive, and it’s not clear what the use case is for the average consumer. But not all smart glasses are the same. JINS is a company that is not yet well know in the United States, but...

CES 2015: Sensors Guide Lower Back Health [video]

by Alfred Poor | January 19, 2015 | Health

Hocoma is a Swiss-based company that has developed robotic exoskeletons for use in hospitals and other clinical settings for rehabilitation treatment. They have taken the knowledge that they have gained about neurological movement disorders and applied it to therapy...

CES 2015: New Approach for Fertility Monitor

by Alfred Poor | January 16, 2015 | Health, Medical

When couples want to have a child, the woman sometimes has difficulty getting pregnant. One of the common approaches to improving the odds of conceiving is to track the woman’s body temperature, with the idea that this can indicate when ovulation occurs. There...

CES 2015: Taking the Emotiv Insight for a Test Drive

by Alfred Poor | January 16, 2015 | Health, Medical

Why is this man smiling? No, he has not been assimilated by the Borg. He just won a car race, simply by thinking about it. Last summer, I wrote about the Insight wireless headset from Emotiv. It is capable of sensing brain activity, and has many applications including...

CES 2015: Wearable Sensors for Clinical Patient Monitoring

by Alfred Poor | January 15, 2015 | Health, Medical

Last summer, we wrote about the HealthPatch from Vital Connect. I got a chance to meet representatives from the company and see the product firsthand at the ShowStoppers press event at CES 2015.  HealthPatch MD is a wearable sensor package that is not aimed at...