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by Bruce Brown | March 21, 2019 | Health
Smart garments for general population everyday wear may catch on in another decade or two, but today there’s no compelling use case: the wearable equivalent of what computer journalists used to refer to as a “killer app.” We have seen digitally...
by Alfred Poor | March 21, 2019 | Health
As we’ve often pointed out, one side-effect of the opioid crisis is that more and more people are turning to non-chemical solutions for health and medical problems. Many people are looking for ways to reduce their feelings of stress in their busy lives, but...
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by Bruce Brown | March 20, 2019 | Enabling Tech
Most people routinely pick up hundreds of objects during a typical day, and they never give a second thought. For mechanical devices — such as robots or powered prosthetics — gripping objects of different sorts can pose a serious challenge. And if the...
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by Alfred Poor | March 20, 2019 | Health
As we’ve written here before, many sleep technology devices are like a weather report; they tell you what happened, but they don’t give you much help in affecting what happens in the future. Fortunately, that’s changing. Philips has created a line of...
by Bruce Brown | March 19, 2019 | Enabling Tech
We constantly seek ways to achieve the highest usable output with the lowest power consumption. No matter how far engineers and scientists push the limits of knowledge chasing optimal net ROE (return on energy), there will always be room for improvement. Space travel,...
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by Bruce Brown | March 18, 2019 | Medical
The quacking Aflac duck continues to serve the supplemental insurance company well, putting smiles on faces today just as it did on New Year’s Day 2000 when now-iconic duck first appeared in an Aflac television commercial, “Park Bench.” Over the...
