New Knee Implant Is Custom 3D Printed for Each Patient

by Amantha May | July 19, 2021 | Enabling Tech, Medical

Knee osteoarthritis affects around 10% to 14% of adults in the United States. In the United Kingdom, the estimated prevalence is even higher at 15% to 19% of individuals over age 20. Knee Osteoarthritis causes debilitating chronic pain and loss of mobility that affect...

Safer Robot Assistants Respond to Unexpected Human Behavior [video]

by Amantha May | July 16, 2021 | Enabling Tech

“Normality; show me normality, Señor Caballero, and I will show you an exception to the abnormal order of the universe; show me a normal event and I shall call it miraculous because it is normal.” Those words, written by celebrated Mexican author Carlos...

Pandemic Will Increase New Demands for Mental Health Services

by Alfred Poor | July 16, 2021 | Health, Medical

The COVID-19 global pandemic continues to cut a swath across the world, leaving death, chronic illness, and economic hardship in its wake. But some of the largest costs of the virus may not be immediately visible. In the long run, the mental health damage may eclipse...

Can We Now Measure Blood Pressure While You Walk Around? Maybe…

by Bruce Brown | July 15, 2021 | Medical

Continuous vital sign monitoring that produces clinical-grade data while wearers go about their daily lives is a shiny brass ring for the wearable technology industry. We’ve argued in the past that passive devices that track data with no active user involvement...

Smartphones to Detect Disease from Voice Samples

by Alfred Poor | July 15, 2021 | Enabling Tech, Health

We’ve written many times about how digital voice samples can be used to diagnose or detect disease and conditions ranging from depression to asthma, from COPD to COVID-19. This is a triumph of mobile technology and artificial intelligence. But now comes news...

New Wearable Harvests Fingertip Sweat for Power [video]

by Amantha May | July 14, 2021 | Enabling Tech

University of California San Diego engineers have developed a wearable device that harvests energy from sweat produced by a fingertip. The flexible device wraps around the finger like a band aid. It can harvest energy when the wearer is at rest or in motion. Finger...