by Alfred Poor | March 8, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health, Medical, Podcast
In this week’s podcast, you’ll hear about some innovative technologies that could change lives. A tiny chip measures the speed of blood flow using light, a lightweight and low-cost exoskeleton is made from fabric and air, and miniature magnetic coils...
by Alfred Poor | February 14, 2017 | General News, Medical
One of the touchstones for futurists is science fiction, and for many, the Star Trek television series in all their iterations presented worlds that could be. In Star Trek: Next Generation, Geordi La Forge (played by LeVar Burton) was blind, but he could see with the...
by Alfred Poor | January 25, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health, Medical, Podcast
Health Tech Insider Editor Alfred Poor shares more observations about wearables at CES 2017. In this episode, he describes a new service that uses augmented reality (AR) glasses to provide a sighted companion on demand for blind people, and a product that converts any...
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by Bruce Brown | January 23, 2017 | General News, Medical
As wearable, carryable, and implantable Health Tech devices develop individually and in the aggregate, many observers look beyond U.S. and European early-adopter tech-savvy markets to areas in the world with low resources. These remote locations have few connections...
by Bruce Brown | January 10, 2017 | General News, Medical
Starting way before royal physicians smelled the stools and urine of infant noblemen, doctors have used their sense of smell to detect disease. According to an article in Scientific American, physicians have “known that the breath contains clues to many...
