New Hearing Aids Adjust as You Walk and Talk

by Bruce Brown | September 3, 2020 | Medical

We’ve written about hearable technology for several years. I’ve also been able to personally try a select number shipping over-the-counter hearing assistance devices, including Nuheara’s IQ Buds and IQ Buds Boost, Olive Health’s Olive, and Wear...

Measure Non-Contact Vital Signs with a Smartphone [video]

by Bruce Brown | September 2, 2020 | General News, Medical

We frequently write about technology components in health and medicine, including enabling technologies that support other devices or platforms. Biometrics sensors used with artificial intelligence machine learning crop up increasingly in studies that demonstrate...

Smart Pill for Collects Samples of Gut Biome [video]

by Amantha May | September 2, 2020 | General News, Medical

Most smart pills deliver medication, track medication compliance, or contain a microscopic camera for internal diagnostic imaging. Now, innovative smart pills can also take a sample of gut bacteria to help understand and diagnose illness. Researchers at Purdue...

New Fitbit Sense Adds Biometric Stress Management and More

by Bruce Brown | September 1, 2020 | Health

Wristband wearable category leader Fitbit introduced three new models inspired by the pandemic-related focus on health and wellness. This fall, Fitbit will begin selling the Fitbit Sense and Fitbit Versa 3 smartwatches and the Inspire 2, a new tracker-style wearable....

Wearable Smart Thermometer Helps Screen for Virus Infection [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 31, 2020 | Health

Lobby and entryway body temperature checks are commonplace in our pandemic-altered world. I’ve had my forehead scanned so often in the last few months, I’ve come up with a series of one-liners about “being cool.” COVID-19 is no joke, however,...

Monitor Pregnancy at Home with New Handheld Ultrasound [video]

by Amantha May | August 31, 2020 | General News, Medical

Less than ten years ago, when I became a mom, the only way to obtain an ultrasound image of a baby in utero was to lie in a chilly room next to a 4-foot console while a tech slathered gel across your stomach and wanded your belly from all angles for at least 20...