by Alfred Poor | November 12, 2015 | Fitness, General News, Health
Everything is getting smart these days, even the traditional bathroom scale. New models measure more than just weight, and instead of a spinning dial of digits, the results are wirelessly beamed to your smartphone or tablet. One of these space age scales, the...
by Alfred Poor | October 20, 2015 | General News, Health, Medical
Alert systems bring piece of mind to the elderly, patients with chronic health conditions, their family members, and their caregivers. These devices let the user summon help in the event of a fall or a medical emergency. Some can even trigger an alert if the user is...
by Alfred Poor | September 10, 2015 | Enabling Tech
You may be annoyed or amused by Siri, but get used to it; it may well be at the forefront of user interfaces for mobile devices. A new report from Tractica predicts that speech recognition will be in 82% of mobile electronic devices by 2020, nearly doubling its...
by Alfred Poor | September 3, 2015 | Medical
It’s a good news/bad news story. According to a tweet by a cardiologist, a patient used data from his Apple Watch to track his heartbeat because he was experiencing dizziness. The watch data showed episodes of very fast and very slow heart rates. The patient...
by Alfred Poor | July 3, 2015 | Health
The British company Aseptika has announced a new version of their Activ8rlives app that now supports Apple’s HealthKit. The “Health Monitoring and Food Diary” program version 3.2 collects user data that can be stored on the Activ8rlives web servers...
