Closing the Loop: Prosthetics with Touch Sense

by Alfred Poor | September 16, 2015 | Health, Medical

For the average person, the loss of a hand or arm can be an enormous physical and emotional challenge. Unfortunately, our military forces have to deal with this problem far too often. For this reason, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) spends a lot...

Tiny Radar Detects Hand Motions [video]

by Alfred Poor | September 15, 2015 | Enabling Tech

  If you’re a frequent reader of Health Tech Insider, you may realize that we like to cover user interface technologies. This is because the tiny size of wearable Health Tech devices present significant challenges for the traditional user input strategies....

Cloth Display Uses LEDs [video]

by Alfred Poor | September 14, 2015 | Enabling Tech

One of the problems with wearable Health Tech devices is that they tend to be small. In fact, the smaller they are, the better because they are more likely to “disappear” into the wearer’s daily life. But as we’ve discussed before, this does...

openFDA Releases Medical Device Data

by Alfred Poor | September 11, 2015 | Health, Medical

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the gatekeeper for health and medical products in the U.S. Applications for approvals and reports of adverse events are a matter of public record and have been available in databases that are accessible online. The FDA...

Speech Recognition to Dominate Mobile Devices

by Alfred Poor | September 10, 2015 | Enabling Tech

You may be annoyed or amused by Siri, but get used to it; it may well be at the forefront of user interfaces for mobile devices. A new report from Tractica predicts that speech recognition will be in 82% of mobile electronic devices by 2020, nearly doubling its...

Sponsored Post: Wearable Technology UX

by Alfred Poor | September 10, 2015 | Enabling Tech, Fitness, Health

Center Ring Media is a media sponsor of the Wearable Tech UX conference in Seattle, October 1-2, 2015. This post was provided by show organizer SmithersApex. Going Beyond the Hardware at Wearable Technology UX 2015  Moving beyond high tech glasses and activity bands,...