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by Bruce Brown | February 3, 2021 | Health
Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) introduced an astounding array of health tech innovations at CES 2021. ITRI’s iSmartWear combines washable conductive fabric with non-contact nanosecond pulse near-field sensing (NPNS) technology to...
by Bruce Brown | January 20, 2021 | Medical
We’ve written before about fetal monitors for consumer use at home. In 2015, for example, we wrote about Nuvo Group’s PregSense wireless device that consists of dual bands placed above and below a pregnant mother’s belly. PregSense connects via...
by Amantha May | November 25, 2020 | Enabling Tech
An innovative “electronic skin” offers similar benefits as other flexible patches; it’s less bulky than a smartwatch and potentially gives more accurate readings. But the electronic skin, designed by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder,...
by Amantha May | November 2, 2020 | Enabling Tech, General News
Flexible sensors, like the ones used in skin patches, offer a more precise and comfortable health monitoring option than larger wearable devices with rigid electrodes and wires. Expanding on these advantages, researchers at the Penn State Department of Engineering...
by Bruce Brown | October 14, 2020 | Health
We’ve written about Neurometrix Quell pain relief wearable several times. Quell is a transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) device available without a prescription to manage leg, foot, and knee pain. Neuronetrix has 15 patents on the Quell technology...
