High-Tech Glasses Help the Visually Impaired [video]

by Amantha May | August 12, 2020 | General News, Health

The Canadian-based company eSight Corp introduced its first-generation, high-tech vision enhancement glasses in 2013. The original eSight, which improved both close-up and distance vision for the visually impaired, was followed by eSight 2 in 2015 and eSight 3 in...

Draw Smart Sensors Directly on Skin with Inks

by Bruce Brown | August 11, 2020 | Enabling Tech

Flexible skin patches with biometric sensors have several advantages over devices that you strap on, clip to clothing, or carry. Skin patch sensors conform to the skin surface, are light in weight, comfortable, and easy to remember to wear if you never have to take...

Robot, Heal Thyself! Penn State Made It Happen [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 10, 2020 | Enabling Tech, General News

C3PO and R2D2 notwithstanding, not all robots are hard. We’ve written about soft robots before, usually in devices that physically contact humans or when the robots function as muscle replacements. For example, in 2019, we wrote about work at Purdue on 3D...

Diabetic Patients May Benefit from the Pandemic

by Amantha May | August 10, 2020 | General News, Health

Shelter-in-place orders have created their share of problems for everyone, but in some cases, response to the COVID-19 pandemic has had a positive effect. According to an analysis of recent data from Diabits, a diabetes management app, staying home last spring may...

Concussion Diagnostic Tech Locates Brain Damage Area [video]

by Bruce Brown | August 7, 2020 | Medical

Uncertainty and worry about concussions and other traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are a one-two punch; the injury might not get to you, but the stress can wear you down. Professional athletes and their families and parents of student-athletes in particular often face...

Quick Test Detects Age-Related Eye Disease Early [video]

by Amantha May | August 7, 2020 | General News, Medical

By 2030, one in five United States residents will be retirement age, meaning that age-related illness will increasingly account for substantial healthcare costs. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the number one cause of severe, permanent vision loss in people...