Measure Pressure in All Directions With 3D-Printed Sensor

by Alfred Poor | July 26, 2021 | Enabling Tech

3D printing continues to disrupt many traditional industries by making complex objects easy and quick to produce with little or no waste. And the design can be changed with a few lines of code, rather than wait to make extensive tooling. We’ve seen many health...

Handheld Breath Test Quickly Diagnoses Digestion Problem

by Amantha May | July 23, 2021 | Medical

AIRE, a new personal breath testing device made by Irish digital digestive health company Food Marble, has earned clinical validation in a trial at Johns Hopkins Medicine. Food Marble designed the handheld hydrogen breath tester to assist physicians in diagnosing and...

Affordable 3D-Printed Eye Care Kit [video]

by Bruce Brown | July 22, 2021 | Health

New Zealand-based ODocs Eye Care develops tools to assist ophthalmologists. For the past six years, ODocs has worked with 3D printer and 3D scaling software company Ultimaker to develop an open source smartphone ophthalmoscope. The company has moved on to develop...

New Wearable Calorie Counter Is More Accurate Than a Smart Watch [video]

by Amantha May | July 21, 2021 | Health

A calorie counter makes good sense as a smartwatch feature. Or it would, if smartwatches could track calories accurately. Sadly, for the most part, they do not. Now, researchers from Stanford University have developed new sensor technology that could improve the...

Renew Your Glasses Prescription at Home Now With Your Phone

by Bruce Brown | July 20, 2021 | Health

Warby Parker is best known for disrupting the prescription eyeglasses industries with relatively inexpensive online frame and lenses fulfillment . Since the company started in 2011, Warby Parker introduced new programs, technologies, and apps all focused on...

Watch as You Remove Earwax with Smart Spade [video]

by Bruce Brown | July 19, 2021 | Health

I’m pretty sure we’ll never see a clinical study that substantiates the effectiveness of Axel Glade’s Spade smart ear wax remover. As a practical matter, however, digging into our ears to free up clogged or accumulated ear wax with cotton swabs,...