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by Bruce Brown | March 31, 2021 | Enabling Tech, Health
Helping visually impaired persons navigate the world around them is a noble mission indeed. We wrote recently about work at Caltech using augmented reality with Microsoft HoloLens to help blind people navigate. Envision Glasses use an AI platform with an 8MB camera, a...
by Bruce Brown | March 30, 2021 | Health
Hearables are the fastest-growing wearables category, besting smart watches, wristbands, and streaming-audio-only earbuds, according to IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker report. After the U.S. Senate approved the Over-the-Counter Hearing...
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by Bruce Brown | March 24, 2021 | Health
Which would be more valuable to you, a wearable that reports about a condition or one that helps relieve it? Yeah, that’s what we think, too. We’ve written about sleep-tracking watches, rings, finger tip sensors, and more. Paris-based UrgoTech’s...
by Bruce Brown | March 23, 2021 | Health
The University of Michigan’s School of Public Health is partnering with Apple to learn how sound exposure impacts heating health. The Michigan Public Health Apple Hearing Study is an ongoing study that has already begun to yield results. The overall purpose is...
by Bruce Brown | March 19, 2021 | Health
The opioid addiction epidemic didn’t disappear during the COVID-10 pandemic. There’s no vaccine that protects people from substance use disorder. We’ve written about a wide variety of technologies aimed at helping people with addiction. For example,...
by Bruce Brown | March 17, 2021 | Health
International Data Corporation (IDC) recently published its Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker for the last quarter of 2020. The report also summarized global wearables shipment data for the full year. Despite COVID-19, and due in part to the pandemic, global...
