by Bruce Brown | July 17, 2019 | Enabling Tech
In 2015 we reported forecasts that smart clothing applications would rise rapidly by 2020 but the bulk of the applications would be fitness-oriented, not associated with healthcare. In 2018 Juniper Research predicted connected clothing would top 7 million units in...
by Bruce Brown | June 13, 2019 | Health
Wearable smart thermometers have two notable advantages over conventional body temperature measurement devices: continuous tracking and noninvasiveness. Why disturb someone who doesn’t feel well — babies and children especially but really anyone — by...
by Alfred Poor | April 9, 2019 | Health
Among the many miracles that many people take for granted, the human hand may rank near the top. Most of use use our hands thousands of times a day, often without even thinking about it. But when you lose the use of a hand, simple tasks such as brushing your teeth or...
by Bruce Brown | January 29, 2019 | Health
Technology isn’t holding us back from continuously monitoring biometric wearables. If we choose, soon we’ll all be able to wear garments that serve an expanded range of functions beyond protecting our skin from sun and weather. In the past few years,...
by Bruce Brown | December 27, 2018 | Health
Opioid overdoses continue to tear apart our communities. There were 70,237 drug overdose deaths in the U.S in 2017, according to the CDC, of which 47,600 were opioid overdoses. West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., and Kentucky had the highest rates of...