Harvesting Solar Energy to Power Wearables

by Bruce Brown | March 7, 2019 | Enabling Tech

Research into new power technologies for wearables continues on many fronts. With tech worn on the wrist, pinned to or integrated with garments, or embedded in prostheses, choosing the best power source can be tricky. We’ve written about innovative power tech...

LTE-M Certified Medical and Health Data Wearable [video]

by Bruce Brown | March 6, 2019 | Enabling Tech, Health, Medical

Smartwatches are poised to take off during 2019 as standalone health tech wearables and for their data aggregation and transmission roles for other devices. We’ve written recently about Withings Move ECG smartwatch. Omron’s HeartGuide oscillometric blood...

E-Skin Market Report Cites Healthcare Adoption

by Bruce Brown | March 5, 2019 | Enabling Tech

Developments in electronic skin (e-skin) encompass a wide range of applications beyond healthcare. Healthcare e-skin implementations in the form of skin patch sensors, tactile sensors for prosthetics, and direct printed on-skin sensors apparently are just the start....

AI-Powered Digital Treatment of COPD Shows Promise

by Bruce Brown | March 4, 2019 | Medical

In 2016, 251 million people — or 3.4% of the Earth’s 7.4 billion population — suffered from COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). COPD is a largely preventable ailment responsible for 5% of all deaths globally, according to WHO (World Health...

Gummy Robots Diagnose and Prevent Disease [video]

by Bruce Brown | March 1, 2019 | Enabling Tech

In the past five years, we’ve written about a wide range of robotic technology healthcare applications. From expressive robots that help autistic kids learn, smart home robots that assist seniors with daily living tasks, and robotic nurse assistants, to AI...

Smart Lighting Aims to Improve Your Sleep [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 28, 2019 | Health

Interest in insufficient sleep has soared in recent years as people of all ages spend more time looking at digital device screens. New understandings of risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease including insufficient sleep have spurred increases in brain research,...