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...
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...
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....
by Alfred Poor | January 6, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health, Medical
CES 2018 starts tomorrow in Las Vegas. In addition to being the largest consumer electronics show, it has become the leading event for wearables and mobile technology for health and medical applications. The Sands exhibit hall will be packed with companies —...
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by Bruce Brown | January 4, 2018 | General News, Health
New Year’s resolutions are hard to keep, as most of us know through experience. It’s difficult to stick with healthy new habits and, for most people, even tougher to break bad habits. Taking the conversation to the extreme, kicking an addiction to opioids...
by Bruce Brown | January 3, 2018 | General News, Health
Wearable pharmaceutical research and development usually focus on appropriate drug release. Drug delivery devices can help with patient compliance, dosage timing, and automatic dosing in response to biometric sensing. We’ve written about magnetically-controlled...
