CES 2015: A Modular Wearable Computer [video]

by Alfred Poor | January 27, 2015 | Fitness, Health

Lots of products at CES 2015 don’t exist. Some are waiting to go into production, while some remain little more than a gleam in their creator’s eye. Somewhere between these two extremes lies HIRIS. The team behind it has been working on it for a few years,...

CES 2015: Find the Fitness Band in This Photo

by Alfred Poor | January 27, 2015 | Fitness

We don’t generally cover products here that are just fitness devices. However, I’m making an exception for the Flip health and fitness monitor because it could be a bellwether for Health Tech wearable devices of the future. I saw this at CES 2015, and it...

CES 2015: Hands-Free Shoes [video]

by Alfred Poor | January 26, 2015 | Health

Not all wearable Health Tech devices need to have digital electronics. Case in point: the Quikiks shoes. Think about this for a moment. When people want to describe someone as being incredibly out of shape, they often say something like “He can’t even bend...

CES 2015: More Than a Sensor for Your Sole [video]

by Alfred Poor | January 26, 2015 | Fitness, Health, Medical

This photo shows a smart insole for shoes. As you might expect, this device can do a much more accurate job of counting your steps than any wrist-worn fitness band can possibly do. But that’s not why it was created. This device is the work of a group of...

CES 2015: Wearable Controller Uses Ear Muscles [video]

by Alfred Poor | January 23, 2015 | Enabling Tech

One of my favorite parts about a big trade show like CES 2015 is that you get to “discover” all sorts of new products and technology that you might not otherwise hear about. That is exactly the case with Reach Bionics, a company that is developing a new...

CES 2015: Software to Recognize Emotion

by Alfred Poor | January 23, 2015 | Enabling Tech

How are you feeling? Well, now there’s an app for that question. Actually, it’s not an app, but rather an API (Application Program Interface) that is being developed by a company named SensAura, based in Montreal, Quebec. The concept of the product is...