Free Digital App Monitors COVID-19 Risk

by Bruce Brown | August 5, 2020 | Health

We often write about remote health monitoring technology for a variety of health conditions, rehab, post-surgery discharge, and more. This year the pandemic spurred the development of AI-based apps and devices for COVID-19 screening. For example, researchers from...

Wearables and AI Enlisted to Assess Endometriosis Pain Objectively

by Amantha May | August 5, 2020 | General News, Medical

[Photo by Anthony Tran on Unsplash] Endometriosis, a reproductive health condition affecting roughly 11% of adult women and teenagers in the United States, causes debilitating pain symptoms. A new partnership between Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. of Japan, and...

Thermal Image Sensing Tracks 3D Hand Positions [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 4, 2020 | Enabling Tech, General News

Researchers at Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin, Madison working together at Cornell’s SciFi Lab developed FingerTrak, a potentially breakthrough wearable that tracks human hand motion in 3D. The SciFi Lab is a new interdisciplinary lab...

Wearable Helps Workers Keep Their Distance [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 3, 2020 | Health

Effective social distancing or controlled proximity is a keystone to a successful return to education and employment as most of us know it. If we can stay far enough away from each other long enough, health experts tell us, we’ll have our best chance to stem the...

Video Game Improves “Chemobrain” [video]

by Amantha May | August 3, 2020 | General News, Health

Three out of four breast cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy experience a decline in cognition. Thirty-five percent of those patients continue to experience cognitive dysfunction after chemotherapy ends. A recently published research paper demonstrates that...

Smart Home Disrupter Launches $25 Fitness Tracker [video]

by Bruce Brown | July 31, 2020 | Health

We don’t generally write about fitness trackers and wearables, but we’re making an exception for the Wyze Band. Wyze disrupted the smart home device camera market in 2017 when the company released the first Wyze Camera, an indoor smart home security camera...