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by Bruce Brown | January 23, 2018 | General News, Health
Profound visual impairment in our increasingly visual world disenfranchises blind or partially sighted people. According to a statistic from the U.K.’s Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), sight loss costs the country nearly $6 billion annually due...
by Bruce Brown | January 19, 2018 | General News, Health
Smart glasses such as the much-maligned Google Glass suffered a false start in the consumer market that tarnished the concept temporarily. When developers who assumed the highest and best use of augmented or enhanced reality (AR or ER) was to give people a way to...
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by Bruce Brown | July 18, 2017 | General News, Health
Wearable health records are not a brand new concept. We’ve written about Code4Armour’s wearable device, a wristband that costs $20, plus you pay $48 a year for the subscription service. We also covered Khushi Baby, a pendant worn on the neck distributed in...
by Alfred Poor | June 21, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Our bodies are an ever-changing chemical soup, where the amounts of various molecules increase and decrease according to our health and physical condition. These are known as biomarkers, as they can be used to determine the presence of disease or other conditions. The...
