by Bruce Brown | November 4, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Researchers continue to push skin sensor technology development. We’ve written about skin sensor technology from many angles including drawing sensors on the skin with ink, 3D sensor printing directly on the skin, energy-harvesting skin patches, haptic...
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by Amantha May | November 4, 2020 | Enabling Tech, General News
Delivering drugs to a specific internal organ often affects other organs along the way, causing side-effects and reducing the amount of medication that reaches the target area. To address this issue, researchers at Purdue University have designed a tiny robot that...
by Bruce Brown | November 3, 2020 | General News, Medical
You might want to file this news under the heading “Silver Lining.” According to a new report by U.K.-based Juniper Research, the COVID-19 pandemic will be a major factor in the projected massive worldwide growth in digital therapeutics and wellness app...
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by Bruce Brown | November 2, 2020 | Enabling Tech
We’ve written about numerous advances in medical diagnostics using artificial intelligence. In one of the most exciting AI-related achievements to date, IBM and Pfizer recently announced the results of a jointly-developed AI model that predicts Alzheimer’s...
by Amantha May | November 2, 2020 | Enabling Tech, General News
Flexible sensors, like the ones used in skin patches, offer a more precise and comfortable health monitoring option than larger wearable devices with rigid electrodes and wires. Expanding on these advantages, researchers at the Penn State Department of Engineering...
by Bruce Brown | October 30, 2020 | Health
We began writing about hearable devices for people with mild to moderate hearing impairment in 2016, the year that the FDA announced steps to improve consumer access to hearing aids. Several companies pre-announced hearable products, but when the calendar turned to...
