New OTC Law Spawns AI-Calibrated Hearables [video]

by Bruce Brown | January 24, 2018 | General News, Health

Nuheara introduced hearables at CES 2018 that would not have been legal six months earlier. IQbuds Boost‘s Ear ID hearing threshold calibration analysis software incorporates National Acoustics Labs‘ NAL-NL2 self-fit protocol. NAL-NL2 is an international,...

Telemonitoring Chronic Health Conditions Reduces Costs

by Kimberly Houston | January 24, 2018 | General News, Medical

With the advent of new technologies come new ways to deliver healthcare. Telehealth services have been around for some time, but the field continues to evolve with the rapid changes in technology, making remote care and monitoring of even serious health conditions...

AI App Describes the World to Visually Impaired [video]

by Bruce Brown | January 23, 2018 | General News, Health

Profound visual impairment in our increasingly visual world disenfranchises blind or partially sighted people. According to a statistic from the U.K.’s Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), sight loss costs the country nearly $6 billion annually due...

Software App Accurately Diagnoses Respiratory Disease [video]

by Kimberly Houston | January 23, 2018 | General News, Medical

Many disorders can affect the lungs and compromise a person’s ability to breath properly: asthma, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), pneumonia, emphysema, bronchitis, and pulmonary fibrosis, among others. Many millions of emergency room and ambulatory care...

New Neurostim Wearables Prevent and Mitigate Migraines [video]

by Bruce Brown | January 22, 2018 | General News, Health

People who suffer from migraine headaches have two new devices to help. As we’ve noted before, approximately one-quarter of all U.S. households include a migraine sufferer. More than 12% of the population have migraines. Many people can detect an incipient...

Smart Glasses Enhance Pennsylvania Student’s Vision

by Bruce Brown | January 19, 2018 | General News, Health

Smart glasses such as the much-maligned Google Glass suffered a false start in the consumer market that tarnished the concept temporarily. When developers who assumed the highest and best use of augmented or enhanced reality (AR or ER)  was to give people a way to...