by Alfred Poor | April 19, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
One of the simplest functions of a wearable device is to simply announce “I am here.” Yet this simple operation can have a wide range of practical applications. Attached to a car or other valuable object, it can tell you where to find it if it is misplaced...
by Alfred Poor | April 18, 2016 | Fitness, General News, Health
One of my favorite (if apocryphal) quotes is the answer that the notorious bank robber Willy Sutton gave when asked why he robbed banks: “Because that’s where the money is!” If you want to look for the growth in any industry, whether it’s...
by Alfred Poor | February 23, 2016 | Fitness, General News, Health
The Quantified Self: it’s a major goal of the wearable Health Tech industry. If we knew more about the bodies of more individuals and their health outcomes, we could detect disease sooner, discover which treatments are truly most effective, lower healthcare...
by Alfred Poor | January 11, 2016 | General News, Health
Millions of people worldwide suffer from nausea for a variety of reasons. One common cause is motion sickness, which can strike sufferers when they are riding on a boat, in an airplane, or even in the family car. Some skiers even are susceptible to motion sickness....
by Alfred Poor | December 24, 2015 | Enabling Tech, Fitness, General News, Health, Medical
Since we launched Health Tech Insider more than a year and a half ago, we have published more than 700 stories about wearable devices for health and medical applications, as well as coverage of new enabling technologies. As we near the end of the year, it is...
