Clinical Grade Wearable Health Monitoring [video]

by Bruce Brown | March 9, 2016 | General News, Health

Wearable Health Tech devices and garments are in a development boom period. The potential of continuous monitoring with automated alerts in critical moments to improve overall health, prevent conditions from worsening, and save money by helping people before they need...

New Implant Technology Uses Metal and Ceramics

by Alfred Poor | March 9, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

The future of wearable Health Tech devices depends on their ability to get under our skin. Implants are the shortest distance to reliable, always-on biometric sensing and other interactive tasks. One important barrier to this future is the size of the device. Larger...

Check Your Own Blood Alcohol Content [video]

by Bruce Brown | March 8, 2016 | General News, Health

So let’s talk about getting wasted on alcohol. When is a drinker drunk? Have you ever tried to talk reason to someone you know was getting too loaded for their own good, let alone too drunk to drive? It’s generally a losing game if they’re too far...

Hybrid Conductor Stretches to 4 Times Its Size [video]

by Alfred Poor | March 8, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

What are you looking at in the photo above? It’s a sheet of plastic with electrical conductors on its surface. These traces connect LEDs to a power source, and you can see that the electricity is reaching them because they are glowing green. So far, so what?...

Better Sleep By Controlling Your Brainwaves [video]

by Bruce Brown | March 7, 2016 | General News, Health

Insufficient sleep is common and that’s not a good thing. According to the Centers of Disease Control (CDC) as many as one in four people in the U.S. report that they don’t get enough sleep and approximately 10% have chronic insomnia. We have previously...

Flexible Display Leads to Bending Interface [video]

by Alfred Poor | March 7, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News

Long-time readers of Health Tech Insider know that we pay a lot of attention to the user interface for wearable devices. There’s no one right answer; touch, gesture, speech recognition, and even brain-hardware interfaces all have a part to play. Still,...