TraceSafe Provides Easy Contact Tracing [video]

by Amantha May | August 14, 2020 | General News, Health

Early this year, as the COVID-19 pandemic began to spread across Asia, one company made a fast pivot to provide a solution that could help to flatten the curve. Drawing on monitoring technology initially used in maternity wards and nursing homes, TraceSafe developed a...

Smart Toilet Seat Tracks Heart Health at Home

by Bruce Brown | August 13, 2020 | Health

Take a seat. That’s what’s required to use a new health tech form factor. We often write about wearable wristbands, pins, headbands, and hearables, as well as implants and carryables with embedded biometric sensors. HeartHealth Intelligence is developing...

3D Printed Compressible Batteries Empower Flexible Wearables

by Bruce Brown | August 13, 2020 | Enabling Tech

Flexible electronics developed for health tech wearables have several advantages over rigid devices. Great comfort and stealthiness may also boost patient compliance for continuous monitoring when necessary. Powering flexible wearable tech is challenge, however....

High-Tech Glasses Help the Visually Impaired [video]

by Amantha May | August 12, 2020 | General News, Health

The Canadian-based company eSight Corp introduced its first-generation, high-tech vision enhancement glasses in 2013. The original eSight, which improved both close-up and distance vision for the visually impaired, was followed by eSight 2 in 2015 and eSight 3 in...

Draw Smart Sensors Directly on Skin with Inks

by Bruce Brown | August 11, 2020 | Enabling Tech

Flexible skin patches with biometric sensors have several advantages over devices that you strap on, clip to clothing, or carry. Skin patch sensors conform to the skin surface, are light in weight, comfortable, and easy to remember to wear if you never have to take...

Robot, Heal Thyself! Penn State Made It Happen [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 10, 2020 | Enabling Tech, General News

C3PO and R2D2 notwithstanding, not all robots are hard. We’ve written about soft robots before, usually in devices that physically contact humans or when the robots function as muscle replacements. For example, in 2019, we wrote about work at Purdue on 3D...