by Bruce Brown | August 30, 2017 | General News, Health
Phoenix-based RESA Wearables, Inc. and China’s Shenzhen eSun Industrial Co., Ltd. plan to disrupt the foot care and custom footwear industries. Through a joint venture called Shenzhen Resun Healthcare Technology Co., Ltd., the partners are introducing retail...
by Bruce Brown | June 21, 2017 | General News, Health
It can be inspiring and instructive to observe an innovative company progress to its goal of solving a huge problem. In this case, the issue is the high cost of and long wait time for prosthetic hands. We’ve been following Open Bionics for three years and...
by Bruce Brown | May 11, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
There’s something about ink on skin that intrigues people. A cross-cultural phenomenon that has lasted at least since Neolithic times, tattoos have served a wide range of purposes, not just as personal adornment. We’ve written about several tattoo...
by Alfred Poor | March 31, 2017 | General News, Medical
Not everyone is born with straight, aligned teeth. Many people have to cope with the ordeal of metal braces in their mouth to get a straighter smile. Others can use a series if clear aligners, custom fit to their individual mouths, which can rearrange teeth over the...
by Alfred Poor | December 20, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Medical imaging has made enormous improvements in recent decades. New digital technologies make it possible to amass huge amounts of data that give physicians the ability to peer inside living bodies. One of the happy benefits of this data is that it can be used to...