Non-Contact Patient Monitoring Protects Health Workers [video]

by Bruce Brown | April 22, 2020 | Health, Medical

The COVID-19 threat to healthcare workers has a double whammy. Doctors, nurses, and other care workers are exposed to infection every day they work. The personal health cost of medical professionals putting themselves in harm’s way is the first hit. The...

Tiny Connected Thermometer Combats COVID-19

by Bruce Brown | April 21, 2020 | Health, Medical

Smart thermometers were among the earliest wearable tech devices. Soft thermometer patch developers stressed the advantage of remote monitoring with very young or ill patients because you don’t need to wake them up in order to take their temperature. In 2016,...

Smart Bandages Improve Healing without Scarring

by Bruce Brown | April 20, 2020 | Enabling Tech, Medical

Smart bandages are a hot topic in wearable tech development. Recent smart bandage designs differ in specific applications, but typically share two functions: wound monitoring and treatment delivery. We wrote about MIT’s smart bandage that releases medication...

Tap to Choose Function with Multipurpose Headband [video]

by Bruce Brown | April 17, 2020 | Health

It would be nice if you could choose your mood as easily as you could select a song by pushing buttons on a 1950s tabletop diner jukebox. OmniPEMF’s NeoRhythm headband wearable doesn’t have buttons, but it responds to gestures and taps. Simple finger...

Computer Vision and AI Support Worker Safety

by Bruce Brown | April 16, 2020 | Health

Thousands of workers die in industrial accidents each year in the U.S. and more than 100,000 suffer from non-fatal work-related injuries. Workers, employers, and insurance companies collectively face billions of dollars of direct and indirect costs due to industrial...

Camera Creates Hi-Res Blood Flow Videos

by Bruce Brown | April 15, 2020 | Medical

Engineers at Rice University developed a breakthrough technology that measures human blood flow to the capillaries in real-time. Hardware called the PulseCam combines high-resolution video with pulse oximeter data. Algorithms in a patented process that creates blood...