by Bruce Brown | April 20, 2020 | Enabling Tech, Medical
Smart bandages are a hot topic in wearable tech development. Recent smart bandage designs differ in specific applications, but typically share two functions: wound monitoring and treatment delivery. We wrote about MIT’s smart bandage that releases medication...
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by Bruce Brown | April 17, 2020 | Health
It would be nice if you could choose your mood as easily as you could select a song by pushing buttons on a 1950s tabletop diner jukebox. OmniPEMF’s NeoRhythm headband wearable doesn’t have buttons, but it responds to gestures and taps. Simple finger...
by Bruce Brown | April 16, 2020 | Health
Thousands of workers die in industrial accidents each year in the U.S. and more than 100,000 suffer from non-fatal work-related injuries. Workers, employers, and insurance companies collectively face billions of dollars of direct and indirect costs due to industrial...
by Bruce Brown | April 15, 2020 | Medical
Engineers at Rice University developed a breakthrough technology that measures human blood flow to the capillaries in real-time. Hardware called the PulseCam combines high-resolution video with pulse oximeter data. Algorithms in a patented process that creates blood...
by Bruce Brown | April 14, 2020 | Health, Medical
Boston-based Whoop focuses on performance-optimization for athletes and exercise enthusiasts. Whoop’s platform has three interdependent pillars: biometric sensing hardware, data analytics, and its user community. In combination, these factors can also provide...
by Bruce Brown | April 13, 2020 | Fitness, General News, Health
Intenational Data Corporation (IDC) tracks the wearable device market worldwide. IDC Market Tracker reports document market activity within specific time periods. The Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker found that 118.9 million devices shipped during the last...
