Ford Drops Heart Attack Seat Plans

Ford Drops Heart Attack Seat Plans

According to a report in the Financial Times (subscription required), Ford has given up on the development of a smart car seat that can detect a driver’s irregular heart rhythms. The idea is that the car could tell if the driver was incapacitated due to a heart...
Home Health Hubs to Grow Rapidly

Home Health Hubs to Grow Rapidly

No man is an island, and if designed properly, few wearable Health Tech devices should live in isolation, either. Part of the benefit of these new devices comes from being able to aggregate data from many different sources for each individual, and then apply Big Data...
McLaren Turns Its Technology to Healthcare

McLaren Turns Its Technology to Healthcare

Formula 1 racing is a high stakes business. Top competitors have annual budgets of $400 million or more to put two drivers and their cars on the race tracks. As a result, it should come as no surprise that race car drivers are some of the most carefully monitored and...
Project Underskin: Mission Possible?

Project Underskin: Mission Possible?

I am often asked what I think it will take for a wearable Health Tech device to be successful. I believe that the key to success will be “invisibility.” By this, I mean that the device has to work without the user having to think about it or fuss with it....