Fast and Easy Eye Exams Using VR [video]

by Alfred Poor | March 25, 2022 | Health, Medical

Millions of people worldwide have impaired vision that has never been diagnosed by a health professional. Heru is a company that hopes to change all that by providing access to automated vision testing and screening, without the aid of a trained physician. The...

New App Makes Sleep Tracking Pad Smarter [video]

by Bruce Brown | March 24, 2022 | Health

French digital health pioneer Withings launched an app-based Sleep Diary last week on World Sleep Day, March 18, 2022. Sleep Diary collects and reports data from the Withings Sleep device, a sleep cycle tracking mat that lies beneath your mattress. Launched in 2018,...

Artificial, Organic Neurons Connect to a Living Plant

by Unber Shafiq | March 23, 2022 | Enabling Tech

The nervous system is the major controlling and regulatory system in the body. Technological advances in devices that can mimic the neuro-biological architectures present in the nervous system require integration with biological systems. Traditional, silicon-based...

Smart Earbuds Help You Sleep Better [video]

by Alfred Poor | March 23, 2022 | Health

Sleep used to be like the weather; everybody talked about it, but nobody did anything to make it better. Sure, we had tips for good “sleep hygiene” but aside from white noise machines to drown out distractions, there were not many technology solutions...

New Fiber Technology Replaces Foam [video]

by Alfred Poor | March 22, 2022 | Enabling Tech

When it comes to creating a major innovation, you might not expect it to come from a company that is more than 400 years old. But that’s what’s happening; Piana Technology has developed a material called E/SMART that it hopes will replace much of the 1.3...

Wearables: Double-Digit Growth Predictions Come True

by Bruce Brown | March 22, 2022 | Health

IDC nailed it. Pulling back to look at global wearables market production and forecasts adds perspective when we write about new and emerging digital health technologies. We pay particular attention to periodic reports from established research firms such...