by Alfred Poor | August 11, 2014 | Medical
Royal Philips and Accenture have joined forces to develop a proof of concept platform designed to give ALS patients and others with neurodegenerative diseases a means to communicate and control their environment, in spite of their paralysis. In a press release issued...
by Alfred Poor | August 11, 2014 | Health
Parents worry about their children. It’s natural. Parents of newborns worry more. Parents with their first baby worry the most. (As a grandparent of a newborn, I can also say that grandparents also worry.) When our children were infants, all we could do was try...
by Alfred Poor | August 8, 2014 | Enabling Tech
Intel is expanding its plans for the wearable Health Tech market. At the Code Conference this spring, the company showed a prototype shirt that — coupled with a small plug-in Edison-powered processing unit — can record and transmit heart rate and other...
by Alfred Poor | August 8, 2014 | Fitness, Health, Medical
“If my feet could talk!” Feet are an essential part of life for the average person, yet we take them for granted. The German company Moticon has an existing product on the market that lets your feet tell you exactly what’s going on. These smart...
by Alfred Poor | August 7, 2014 | Fitness
The bracelet/watch model for a fitness tracker makes for a convenient device, but it has its limitations. To monitor heart rate, many require that you wear a separate chest band, for example. While not a new product, the Hexoskin shirt provides a different approach to...
by Alfred Poor | August 7, 2014 | Fitness, Health, Medical
Last year, SurveyMonkey conducted one of their Shakedown surveys about wearable technology. While the sampling was small and hardly scientific, it did reveal an interesting result. When the question was asked “Which type of wearable device interests you...
