AI Diagnoses Eye Disease [video]

AI Diagnoses Eye Disease [video]

by | September 12, 2018 | General News, Medical

The promise of Big Data is that it will be able to learn quickly from huge data sets and find correlations that might escape the notice of a human analyst. If applied to medical applications, this could lead to faster and more accurate diagnoses, which in turn could...
Health Tags Disappear until Needed [video]

Health Tags Disappear until Needed [video]

by | September 12, 2018 | General News, Health

  After the cool factor wears off with health and wellness wearables, ease of use and unobtrusiveness matter more when people move to the next thing and get on with their lives. In order to convince most people to continue to use wearables and to attract new...
Smartwatch for Seniors Calls for Help

Smartwatch for Seniors Calls for Help

by | September 11, 2018 | General News, Health

You are probably aware of the late night television commercials in which an elderly person is on the floor, calling “Help, I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” This is the rallying cry of the personal emergency response system (PERS) companies, who...
Inui Health FDA-Cleared Home Urine Testing

Inui Health FDA-Cleared Home Urine Testing

by | September 10, 2018 | General News, Health

Urine tests can screen for opioid and other controlled substance use, test for HIV, STDs, kidney function, metabolic disorders such as diabetes and hypertension, urinary tract infections, and general health. When we wrote about a home urine test scanner developed by...
Smart Suit Gives Haptic Feedback

Smart Suit Gives Haptic Feedback

by | September 10, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News

We’ve covered all sorts of exoskeletons that augment or restore a body’s ability to move, but what if you had a suit that could simulate touch? Haptic feedback gives the sensation of something touching you, or of you touching an object. What if you could...