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by Bruce Brown | March 31, 2021 | Enabling Tech, Health
Helping visually impaired persons navigate the world around them is a noble mission indeed. We wrote recently about work at Caltech using augmented reality with Microsoft HoloLens to help blind people navigate. Envision Glasses use an AI platform with an 8MB camera, a...
by Amantha May | March 31, 2021 | Medical
There’s no doubt that 3D printing has disrupted conventional manufacturing. Greener and more cost-effective on many levels, 3D printing is also liberating product design from traditional machine production constraints. A partnership between HP and SmileDirectClub...
by Bruce Brown | March 30, 2021 | Health
Hearables are the fastest-growing wearables category, besting smart watches, wristbands, and streaming-audio-only earbuds, according to IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker report. After the U.S. Senate approved the Over-the-Counter Hearing...
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by Bruce Brown | March 29, 2021 | Enabling Tech
Health Tech Insider publisher Alfred Poor wrote in 2015 that energy harvesting is key to wearable success. Alfred’s premise was that for wearables to be ultimately successful they had to “disappear into our lives.” If we need to replace batteries or...
by Amantha May | March 29, 2021 | Enabling Tech
To make wearables truly effortless — integrating seamlessly into daily life virtually unnoticed — engineers must solve a few essential problems. These include eliminating bulky hardware and enhancing comfort while maintaining durability. Eliminating the...
by Bruce Brown | March 26, 2021 | Medical
At Health Tech Insider, we often cover biosensing devices such as continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), electronic health records (EHR), and remote patient managment (RPM). Rarely do we cover all three topics in the same post. The lockdowns associated with the COVID-19...
