Global Giant GlaxoSmithKline Partners with NeuroMetrix Pain Wearable

by Bruce Brown | January 26, 2018 | General News, Health

It couldn’t have worked out better if they planned it that way. Science-led global healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare and wearable pain solution innovator NeuroMetrix announced a technology sale and a multiyear development collaboration deal...

Smartwatch WaaS Protects Workers, Kids, and Seniors [video]

by Bruce Brown | January 25, 2018 | General News, Health

Single-purpose wrist, pendant, or pin-on emergency alert devices have been available for decades. Smartwatches paired with smartphones running health and wellness apps are commonplace. In a further step for wearable alert products, Shenzhen-based mobile device...

Free Webinar: Executive Briefing on CES 2018

by Alfred Poor | January 25, 2018 | General News, Health, Medical

CES 2018 was bigger than ever, especially when it comes to wearable and mobile devices for health and medical applications. There were more than 3,900 exhibitors overall, taking up 2.75 million square feet of space. Even the labyrinth of startups that is the Eureka...

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...