by Amantha May | April 2, 2021 | Enabling Tech
Microgrids power small geographic areas using a network of distributed energy sources. Microgrids that serve municipalities, college campuses, and hospital complexes draw and store power from various sources, including solar, wind, water, and other renewable energy...
by Bruce Brown | April 1, 2021 | Medical
We’ve written about Denmark-based Miiskin’s eponymous mole-tracking feature previously. Miiskin is an iOS app that uses a smartphone camera to monitoring skin health. The original version of the software had four major functions: locating marks and moles...
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by Bruce Brown | March 31, 2021 | Enabling Tech, Health
Helping visually impaired persons navigate the world around them is a noble mission indeed. We wrote recently about work at Caltech using augmented reality with Microsoft HoloLens to help blind people navigate. Envision Glasses use an AI platform with an 8MB camera, a...
by Amantha May | March 31, 2021 | Medical
There’s no doubt that 3D printing has disrupted conventional manufacturing. Greener and more cost-effective on many levels, 3D printing is also liberating product design from traditional machine production constraints. A partnership between HP and SmileDirectClub...
by Bruce Brown | March 30, 2021 | Health
Hearables are the fastest-growing wearables category, besting smart watches, wristbands, and streaming-audio-only earbuds, according to IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker report. After the U.S. Senate approved the Over-the-Counter Hearing...
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by Bruce Brown | March 29, 2021 | Enabling Tech
Health Tech Insider publisher Alfred Poor wrote in 2015 that energy harvesting is key to wearable success. Alfred’s premise was that for wearables to be ultimately successful they had to “disappear into our lives.” If we need to replace batteries or...
