by Bruce Brown | July 7, 2022 | Health
We don’t often write about health and wellness devices on Kickstarter or Indiegogo before the products actually ship. However, we occasionally make an exception for unique solutions for common problems or concerns. That’s the case with Solace, a huggable...
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 Bruce Brown | September 23, 2021 | Health
Therapy dogs can bring light into otherwise dark lives. Therapy dogs aren’t necessarily as highly trained as service dogs for visually impaired people, for example, but therapy dogs must have specific characteristics. Therapy dogs need to be...
by Bruce Brown | June 26, 2020 | Health
The possibilities of pharmaceutical-free stress reduction and pain management have broad appeal (except, perhaps, to pharmaceutical companies). We’ve covered wearables designed to reduce stress, such as iBreve’s eponymous breathing pattern monitor and...
by Bruce Brown | April 28, 2020 | Health
Sheltering at home appears to be an effective defense against COVID-19. However, the lockdown’s confinement and restricted contact with friends and family on top of the daily pall of virus-related news induce significant stress for many people. The increased...