Eye-Tracking Diagnoses Traumatic Brain Injury [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 7, 2020 | Medical

Last year we covered RightEye’s announcement of Brain Health EyeQ, an eye-tracking platform for medical diagnosis and performance training. EyeQ uses a tablet equipped with cameras to track small eye movements called saccades. The platform analyzes the movement...

Report: Remote Monitoring Is the Future for CVD Management

by Bruce Brown | February 6, 2020 | Medical

Most of our posts focus on specific health or medical technologies. IDTechEx recently published a report on the future of cardiovascular disease management. The report stresses the importance of wearable and nonwearable biometric sensors in remote monitoring and...

Flexible Fabric Harvests Body Heat for IoT

by Bruce Brown | February 5, 2020 | Enabling Tech

The search for efficient power sources for wearables and Internet of Things (IoT) devices takes many directions. In the past, we’ve written about technology that harvests energy from knee movement, sunlight, nanotube yarn, and more. Scientists at the Electronics...

Cuff-Like Accuracy BP Sensor for Hearables from Valencell [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 4, 2020 | Enabling Tech

We’ve written about Valencell many times. The Raleigh, North Carolina-based company has a strong presence in biometric sensor development. To cite just a few instances, in 2016 we wrote about Valencell licensing hearable sensor patents to Samsung. We covered a...

Smart Ring Packs Wide-Ranging Features [video]

by Bruce Brown | February 3, 2020 | Health

A multipurpose wearable designed to track fitness, wellness, and vital signs that also has communications and entertainment functions sounds wonderful. If the rich feature set comes in a bulky end product with an awkward user interface, however, the buzz fades to...

Wearable Prevents Joint Replacement Post-Op Edema

by Bruce Brown | January 31, 2020 | Medical

More than 90% of patients who have knee or hip replacement surgery experience postoperative lower extremity swelling (edema). Last year we wrote about Spryng’s battery-powered pneumatic wraps designed to apply rhythmic pressure to the lower legs to prevent...