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by Bruce Brown | February 19, 2019 | Medical
Wearable health tech isn’t new. If anyone asks who in their right mind would consent to wear techy gadgets voluntarily, the safest answer would be: “Probably you.” Approximately 78% of U.S. adults (194 million of an adult population of 248 million)...
by Bruce Brown | February 7, 2019 | Health
We’ve followed Withings before, during, and after its purchase and sell back by Nokia. Not long after Withings regained its independence, the company launched the Steel HR Sport hybrid digital and analog smartwatch, a variation of the Steel HR introduced when...
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by Alfred Poor | February 6, 2019 | Health
As concerns grow about the abuse of pain medications, professionals and patients are looking first to non-chemical solutions. We saw several products in this category at CES 2019, including the Quell product from Neurometrix. We’ve reported on this product in...
by Alfred Poor | February 5, 2019 | Health
According to UPMC Sports Medicine, people involved in sports and recreation suffer 1.7 to 3 million concussions every year in the U.S. and half of them go unreported and undetected. (For those who may be interested, about 10% to 20% of these are football-related.) We...
by Bruce Brown | January 29, 2019 | Health
Technology isn’t holding us back from continuously monitoring biometric wearables. If we choose, soon we’ll all be able to wear garments that serve an expanded range of functions beyond protecting our skin from sun and weather. In the past few years,...
