by Bruce Brown | December 21, 2021 | Health
Digital health for hearing impaired people includes assistive devices and hearing aids plus services such as captioning for telephones, smartphones, and other devices. Earlier this year, we wrote about ClearCaptions’ Internet Protocol Captioned Telephone...
by Unber Shafiq | December 21, 2021 | Enabling Tech
We are 7.9 billion people on the planet. Many of us have one or more electronic devices. While these devices have made life more efficient, the billions of batteries come with an environmental cost. But what if we could solve the issue of adverse environmental...
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by Bruce Brown | December 20, 2021 | Enabling Tech
Engineers in the Stanford University Biomimetics and Dextrous Manipulation Lab may not talk to the animals like Doctor Dolittle, but they do learn from other species. Stanford graduate students recently published a paper in Science Robotics detailing their work...
by Amantha May | December 17, 2021 | Medical
Software that uses a smartphone or smart speaker to monitor breathing now has FDA 510 (k) clearance. The clinically validated app was developed by the University of Washington spinout company, Sound Life Sciences. It uses sonar to detect changes in breathing. Before...
by Bruce Brown | December 16, 2021 | Health
Your body has messages for you. We’ve written about biofeedback in several forms and purposes. In 2014 we wrote about Galvanic Ltd.’s Pip, a guitar pick-shaped device that measures galvanic skin response (GSR) to help users manage stress. In 2015 and again...
by Unber Shafiq | December 15, 2021 | Enabling Tech
Just a few years ago, governments and the medical community were entrenched in a debate over whether telehealth is a viable solution for healthcare delivery. Today, almost all parts of the world have telehealth-enabled healthcare models. The Australian government has...
