3-D Printed Spinal Components

by Bruce Brown | March 10, 2016 | General News, Medical

3-D printing has been covered by mainstream consumer tech press since 2012. Earlier interest was limited largely to hobbyists and engineers. Even in 2012 and 2013, many of the examples of 3-D printing were of creating small plastic toys and parts. Skip forward just a...

Smartphone Tracks Parkinson’s Symptoms [video]

by Alfred Poor | March 10, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical

Parkinson’s Disease is a chronic, debilitating disease for which there is currently no cure, yet it affects seven to 10 million people worldwide. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ranks complications from the disease as the 14th leading cause...

Insured Employees to Get Account Credits

by Alfred Poor | March 4, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical

It’s no secret; health insurance costs are a serious problem for a large number of U.S. citizens and employers. Wearable Health Tech offers the potential to lower these costs by providing more information about individuals and communities as a whole. Small...

Pressure-Sensing Sock to Help Diabetics [video]

by Alfred Poor | February 26, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical

We’ve covered smart socks on several occasions, designed for helping patients with dementia, runners, and seniors who are at risk of falling. Now there is another sock device that is designed to tackle the problem of diabetic neuropathy that often leads to...

Implantable Kidney Replacement [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 22, 2016 | General News, Medical

According a report from The National Kidney Foundation in 2012, it costs $87 billion a year to care for patients with kidney disease, not counting medication. With more than 100,000 kidney donors on the list for transplants, last year only about 17,000 patients...

Smart Eyewear Finds Home in Enterprise

by Alfred Poor | February 22, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health, Medical

The Recon Jet is one of the head-mounted computing platforms that continues to find success in the corporate market, even though Google Glass got a lot of media attention for its failure to find an initial market. We’ve covered the Jet in the past, but it is one...