by Alfred Poor | December 20, 2018 | Enabling Tech
The eyes may not only be the windows on our souls, but they can also provide a view into many aspects of our physical health as well. Many researchers are working toward sensors that could sit on the surface of the eye to monitor all sorts of biometric measures....
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by Alfred Poor | October 5, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
A key part of the Health Tech wearable revolution is wireless communications. We depend on WiFi and Bluetooth transmissions to connect wearable devices to smartphones, computers, and the Cloud, so that these devices are not tied down by a data cable. To transmit and...
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by Alfred Poor | November 15, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Wearables face a vexing paradox. We want them to get smaller and smaller, yet smaller devices have less room available for buttons, touch pads, and other methods of controlling them. Solutions that work great for a desktop computer or tablet do not necessarily work...
by Alfred Poor | May 4, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
One of my recurring themes on Health Tech Insider is that wearable technology will have to “disappear” into our daily lives in order to become truly effective. One key development is “functional textiles”: cloth that can perform useful tasks in...
by Alfred Poor | May 20, 2015 | Enabling Tech
A little smudge of carbon could make a huge difference in wireless Health Tech devices. Researchers at the University of Manchester in England have developed a way to print graphene antennas that could lead to low-cost, flexible antennas for everything from RFID tags...
