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by Bruce Brown | November 17, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Soft sensors for wearables have to stand up to challenges that sensors in wristbands, pins, belt packs, and glasses never experience. We’ve written about enabling technology developments such as printed stretchable conductors, stretchable fabric battery design,...
by Amantha May | November 16, 2020 | Medical
When someone speaks, a listener’s brain makes numerous assumptions based on vocal qualities, both consciously and unconsciously. Vocal tone, rhythm, pitch, and other components help us assess age, intent, and emotional state, along with many other characteristics. ...
by Bruce Brown | November 14, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Most effective exercise programs include a stretching component. During the past few years, developments in stretchable sensors and batteries indicate that stretching is a good feature for wearable medical and health technology as well. We’ve written about...
by Bruce Brown | November 13, 2020 | Medical
Teledermatology is a showcase of telemedicine specialty. Forwarded high-resolution images of moles or other suspect areas of the skin enable dermatologists to make initial judgments without requiring in-person patient appointments. In 2017, we wrote about 3Derm...
by Amantha May | November 13, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Flexible skin sensors have advantages over hard-cased wearables in terms of the potential for precision readings. But pliability has a disadvantage when it comes to the durability of bendable sensor hardware components. That vulnerability means that a flexible sensor...
by Bruce Brown | November 12, 2020 | Health
Score another win for digital therapeutics. We’ve written about FDA approval for prescribed digital therapeutics, a Consumer Technology Association (CTA) initiative to develop a set of standards for digital therapeutics, and the pandemic’s influence in...
