by Bruce Brown | December 1, 2020 | Health
Hearable devices include products that enhance streaming media entertainment, enable hands-free phone and video conference calls, cancel external noise, and assist with hearing loss. We’ve written recently about Phonak’s Audeo Paradise AI-assisted hearing...
by Bruce Brown | November 4, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Researchers continue to push skin sensor technology development. We’ve written about skin sensor technology from many angles including drawing sensors on the skin with ink, 3D sensor printing directly on the skin, energy-harvesting skin patches, haptic...
by Bruce Brown | September 7, 2020 | General News, Health
Exoskeletons play increasingly important roles in prosthetics, rehabilitation, and industrial worker augmentation and assistance. Last year FutureWise predicted exoskeletons would become a $4 billion industry by the end of 2026. In June, we wrote about...
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...
by Bruce Brown | June 15, 2020 | Enabling Tech
Energy-harvesting electronic surgical implants answer one of the most important questions in medical technology development: how will the device get power? Possibilities for product design and placement in the body expand significantly if you don’t have to allow...