by Alfred Poor | June 16, 2014 | Health, Medical
“First, do no harm.” Often attributed to the Hippocratic Oath, it has been a guiding principle for physicians and everyone else involved in health care for ages. Unfortunately, there is not always agreement on what is appropriate and effective treatment,...
by Alfred Poor | June 16, 2014 | Health, Medical
According to statistics cited by the technology product design company Artefact, about 3 million people in the United States live with epilepsy. Of these, about 50,000 die every year from epilepsy-related causes. The designers at Artefact wanted to come up with a...
by Alfred Poor | June 13, 2014 | Medical
“Give a kid a hammer, and the whole world looks like a nail.” When it comes to tools, people don’t always use them for their intended purpose. These “off label” applications can result in some startling benefits, however. Consider the...
by Alfred Poor | June 13, 2014 | Health, Medical
The notorious thief Willie Sutton is perhaps best known for his famous (if apocryphal) quote about why he robbed banks: “Because that’s where the money is.” If you look at the overall wearable technology industry, the healthcare and wellness...
by Alfred Poor | June 12, 2014 | Health, Medical
In order for a wearable fitness or health device to be helpful, it needs to gather data about the user who is wearing it. One of the key challenges in this area is to create materials that can collect information over a relatively large area, that are sufficiently...
by Alfred Poor | June 10, 2014 | Enabling Tech, Medical
Researchers at the University of Texas, Dallas and the University of Tokyo have demonstrated ways to print transistors on plastic substrates that then can conform to structures in the body such as blood vessels, nerves, or tendons. This will make it possible to create...
