Affordable 3D-Printed Eye Care Kit [video]

by Bruce Brown | July 22, 2021 | Health

New Zealand-based ODocs Eye Care develops tools to assist ophthalmologists. For the past six years, ODocs has worked with 3D printer and 3D scaling software company Ultimaker to develop an open source smartphone ophthalmoscope. The company has moved on to develop...

New Wearable Calorie Counter Is More Accurate Than a Smart Watch [video]

by Amantha May | July 21, 2021 | Health

A calorie counter makes good sense as a smartwatch feature. Or it would, if smartwatches could track calories accurately. Sadly, for the most part, they do not. Now, researchers from Stanford University have developed new sensor technology that could improve the...

Renew Your Glasses Prescription at Home Now With Your Phone

by Bruce Brown | July 20, 2021 | Health

Warby Parker is best known for disrupting the prescription eyeglasses industries with relatively inexpensive online frame and lenses fulfillment . Since the company started in 2011, Warby Parker introduced new programs, technologies, and apps all focused on...

Watch as You Remove Earwax with Smart Spade [video]

by Bruce Brown | July 19, 2021 | Health

I’m pretty sure we’ll never see a clinical study that substantiates the effectiveness of Axel Glade’s Spade smart ear wax remover. As a practical matter, however, digging into our ears to free up clogged or accumulated ear wax with cotton swabs,...

New Knee Implant Is Custom 3D Printed for Each Patient

by Amantha May | July 19, 2021 | Enabling Tech, Medical

Knee osteoarthritis affects around 10% to 14% of adults in the United States. In the United Kingdom, the estimated prevalence is even higher at 15% to 19% of individuals over age 20. Knee Osteoarthritis causes debilitating chronic pain and loss of mobility that affect...

Safer Robot Assistants Respond to Unexpected Human Behavior [video]

by Amantha May | July 16, 2021 | Enabling Tech

“Normality; show me normality, Señor Caballero, and I will show you an exception to the abnormal order of the universe; show me a normal event and I shall call it miraculous because it is normal.” Those words, written by celebrated Mexican author Carlos...