by Kimberly Houston | December 14, 2017 | General News, Health
When smartphones started omitting the standard 3.5mm headphone jack, there was a bit of an uproar among those who didn’t love the idea of buying a separate adapter to listen to music, podcasts, or other audio with their headphones. Blog posts and online forums filled...
by Bruce Brown | December 5, 2017 | General News, Health
Cochlear implants and telehealth stand out as two of the stars on the short list of emerging health tech. Both developments are on fast paths to what looks-like-from-here wide implementation. Telehealth is regularly in the news and we’re on it like white on...
by Bruce Brown | October 11, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
About one in ten babies born in the U.S. is delivered pre-term, before completing 37 weeks of pregnancy. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) latest report on premature birth rates also states that babies’ brains, lungs, and liver...
by Alfred Poor | September 6, 2017 | General News, Health
Digital sound processing such as beamforming have done wonders to improve hearing aids so that they can do more than just amplify sounds for the hearing impaired. But there are times when even these new technologies fall short. How is the device supposed to know which...
by Alfred Poor | August 22, 2017 | Fitness, General News, Health, Medical
Rumors of the death of digital wearables are greatly exagerated. The wearables industry is still a frothy, exciting, and dynamic phenomenon, with fast-paced change, fierce competition, and innovation that continues to receive a lot of attention and funding from...