Control Smartphone Glasses with a Ring

by Bruce Brown | November 1, 2019 | Health

Smart glasses have great appeal, and not just because many of us secretly want to be Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2. Even without the motorcycle, however, it would be convenient to remain digitally connected as we walk, drive, and move through our day. Google...

EyeQue At-Home Vision Testing [video]

by Bruce Brown | October 29, 2019 | Health

EyeQue’s new Vision Monitoring Kit is the Newark, California-based company’s latest at-home vision testing solution. We wrote about EyeQue’s low-cost optical scope called VisionCheck that attaches to a smartphone display for users to self-administer...

Monitor Your Meditation with a Smart Ring [video]

by Bruce Brown | October 25, 2019 | Health

We first looked at Helsinki-based Oura‘s sleep and activity tracking Oura Ring in 2017. Oura released a new version of the Oura Ring earlier this year and more recently added Moment, an app-directed feature to help wearers quantify the impact of meditation, breathing...

Smart Insole Detects Diabetic Foot Ulcers

by Bruce Brown | October 24, 2019 | Health

The CDC reports that between 10% and 15% of people with diabetes will develop diabetic foot ulcers during their lives. With more than 30 million diabetics in the U.S. and 84 million-plus with pre-diabetes, early foot ulcer detection gives patients the best way to...

“Close” Is Not Good Enough for AI in Healthcare [video]

by Alfred Poor | October 24, 2019 | Enabling Tech, Health, Medical

If you’re a frequent reader of Health Tech Insider (or better yet, a subscriber to our free weekly email newsletter), you know that we’re cheerleaders for artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare because it has the potential to save lives and lower costs...

Earbuds Provide Stress Relief [video]

by Alfred Poor | October 15, 2019 | Health

We appear to be slowly leaving the Age of the Pill. The last few generations have been raised on the idea that there’s a pill for whatever ails you. While modern pharmaceuticals continue to perform medical miracles, it remains a fact that we as a society have...