Better Hearing One Ear at a Time [video]

by Bruce Brown | July 21, 2020 | Health

Hearables are the fastest growing segment of the wearables market, according to the latest IDC quarterly wearables marketing report. We’ve written about and looked at hearables before, including Nuheara’s IQBuds Boost and Wear and Hear’s BeHear Now....

Partners Seek No-Cuff Blood Pressure Monitoring

by Bruce Brown | July 20, 2020 | Health

Blood pressure is one of the most essential vital signs when it comes to monitoring a patient’s health. The traditional method is to use a pressure cuff on a patient’s upper arm and then listen to the sounds of blood flow as the pressure changes. The main...

Free Mental Health App for Frontline Workers

by Amantha May | July 20, 2020 | Health

Experts believe that the Covid-19 pandemic has caused first responders and frontline healthcare workers to experience trauma and distress. Such experiences could increase their risk for mental health conditions, especially post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The...

Accidental Discovery: Energy Harvesting from Air

by Bruce Brown | July 17, 2020 | Enabling Tech

What do penicillin, microwave ovens, pacemakers, Silly Putty, LSD, The Slinky, Post-It notes, X-rays, and inkjet printers have in common? They were all discovered by accident, usually by scientists investigating or intent on inventing something completely different....

Draw Your Own Health Sensor [video]

by Amantha May | July 17, 2020 | Enabling Tech

Sometimes, the future arrives as a low-tech innovation that redefines simple technology from the past. It doesn’t get much simpler than a graphite pencil: a device widely used today that has barely deviated from its original design from the 1500s. What goes hand in...

Help for Incontinent Prostate cancer Survivors [video]

by Bruce Brown | July 16, 2020 | Health

Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in the U.S. There were more than 200,000 new cases of prostate cancer in 2017, the latest year with available data from the CDC. The incidence of surgery for prostate cancer has dropped during the past decade, from...