New Exoskeleton Prevents Back Pain [video]

by Amantha May | November 6, 2020 | General News, Health

Lower back support apparel can help prevent back injuries, especially for workers in jobs that require heavy lifting, but it doesn’t alleviate muscle fatigue which is a key source of back pain and an injury precursor. Vanderbilt University engineers have designed an...

Artificial Intelligence Adjusts New Hearing Device [video]

by Bruce Brown | November 5, 2020 | Health

We write often about advances in over-the-counter hearables suitable for moderate hearing impairments that users can purchase without seeing an audiologist. Most recently we covered Nuheara’s laudable third-generation IQbuds MAX. We’ve also written about...

New Skin Sensor Replaces Lost Speech for ALS Patients

by Bruce Brown | November 4, 2020 | Enabling Tech

Researchers continue to push skin sensor technology development. We’ve written about skin sensor technology from many angles including drawing sensors on the skin with ink, 3D sensor printing directly on the skin, energy-harvesting skin patches, haptic...

New Tiny Acrobatic Robot Tumbles to Deliver Medicine [video]

by Amantha May | November 4, 2020 | Enabling Tech, General News

Delivering drugs to a specific internal organ often affects other organs along the way, causing side-effects and reducing the amount of medication that reaches the target area. To address this issue, researchers at Purdue University have designed a tiny robot that...

Virus Crisis Speeds Adoption of New Digital Therapeutics

by Bruce Brown | November 3, 2020 | General News, Medical

You might want to file this news under the heading “Silver Lining.” According to a new report by U.K.-based Juniper Research, the COVID-19 pandemic will be a major factor in the projected massive worldwide growth in digital therapeutics and wellness app...

Speech Recordings Give Early Warning for Alzheimer’s [video]

by Bruce Brown | November 2, 2020 | Enabling Tech

We’ve written about numerous advances in medical diagnostics using artificial intelligence. In one of the most exciting AI-related achievements to date, IBM and Pfizer recently announced the results of a jointly-developed AI model that predicts Alzheimer’s...