Eyeglasses as Wearable Health Tech [video]

Eyeglasses as Wearable Health Tech [video]

by | May 20, 2015 | Health

According to Global Eyesight Now, six out of 10 people in the world wear glasses or corrective lenses (or have had corrective surgery). For the majority of these people their days start by putting on a pair of glasses and end by taking them off. VSP Global is one of...
Knee Brace Harvests Energy [video]

Knee Brace Harvests Energy [video]

by | May 7, 2015 | Enabling Tech

  We have covered exoskeletons here before; typically, these strap-on devices help paralyzed people walk on their own. A group of students at Rice University are working on a device that doesn’t provide power to the wearer, but instead harvests energy from...
Energy Harvesting Camera Charges Itself

Energy Harvesting Camera Charges Itself

by | April 29, 2015 | Enabling Tech

Wearable Health Tech devices have all sorts of sensors, and many include cameras. These can be used for the prosaic tasks of capturing still images or video, but that’s just the start. Giving a device the power of vision means that it can detect gestures that...
Another Headworn Computer [video]

Another Headworn Computer [video]

by | April 24, 2015 | Fitness

While Google takes a low-key approach to the continued development of Google Glass, there are still lots of other head-mounted computer systems. One example is the Jet available from Recon. Marketed for fitness applications, the device is a full-featured computer...
Thumbs Up for Wearable Interface [video]

Thumbs Up for Wearable Interface [video]

by | April 22, 2015 | Enabling Tech

We’ve often discussed how important the user interface for wearable Health Tech devices is to their success, and how complex the problem is to come up with a good solution (such as here and here). Researchers at the famous MIT Media Labs have come up with a...