VR App Helps Manage Pain and Anxiety

VR App Helps Manage Pain and Anxiety

The possibilities of pharmaceutical-free stress reduction and pain management have broad appeal (except, perhaps, to pharmaceutical companies). We’ve covered wearables designed to reduce stress, such as iBreve’s eponymous breathing pattern monitor and...
Activity Metric Correlates with Longer Life

Activity Metric Correlates with Longer Life

Exercise is good for you. We’ve heard and believed in the health benefits of physical exercise for years. But what does “exercise” mean exactly? What should we do, and how much how often should we do it? The lack of clarity about which types of...
Smart Safety Wearable Now Offers Proximity Alerts

Smart Safety Wearable Now Offers Proximity Alerts

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...
Self-monitoring Skin App Tracks Moles [video]

Self-monitoring Skin App Tracks Moles [video]

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...