Multi-Sensor Band Nears Delivery [video]

by Alfred Poor | February 12, 2015 | Fitness, Health

Angel is a new entry into the fitness band market. If you’re going to be late to the party, you better bring something special. It remains to be seen whether or not Angel will be able to deliver on its potential. To start, the band has less; there’s no...

Suit Warns Paraplegics of Injury [video]

by Alfred Poor | February 12, 2015 | Health

Talan Skeels-Piggins is a former member of the UK Royal Navy who suffered a motorcycle accident that left him paralyzed from the chest down. He went on to compete as a downhill skier in the 10th Winter Paralympics, but an injury forced him to give that up. Instead, he...

Wearable Health Benefits Depend on Software

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

The potential benefits of the “quantified person” are huge, making it possible to improve diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of all sorts of diseases and chronic conditions. One of the biggest barriers to realizing these gains, however, are the...

Wearable Tech Seeks Guinea Pigs on the Internet

by Alfred Poor | February 11, 2015 | Health

Here’s something you don’t see every day. The exploding wearable Health Tech market means that lots of companies are coming up with all sorts of new ideas for products and services. It stands to reason that some of these new concepts may not have been...

Acid-Powered Rockets Explore the Stomach [video]

by Alfred Poor | February 10, 2015 | Enabling Tech, Medical

The photo may look like a pair of cooling towers for a nuclear power plant, but they’re not. What you see is a scanning microscope image of two tiny devices, each about one fifth the width of a human hair. Each one is actually a micromotor, and the video shows...

Therapeutic Hugs in Style [video]

by Alfred Poor | February 10, 2015 | Medical

You may have heard of Temple Grandin. This remarkable woman has autism, and among other accomplishments, developed new designs for corrals that help reduce the stress in cattle. At the age of 18, she invented a “hug box” that would apply pressure to her...