by Bruce Brown | October 12, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Strapping a wristband, hanging a lanyard, or putting on a pin or headwear to measure monitor health metrics may sound like no big deal. But remembering and the extra effort required to add a wearable to one’s daily outfit are real-life compliance obstacles. What...
by Alfred Poor | February 18, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Cellulose. It’s one of the most common bio-materials on earth. It’s the substance that gives plants the ability to stand up, from blades of grass to might oaks. It’s the by-product of practically all plant food production in the world. And unless...
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by Bruce Brown | January 4, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Are you ready for this? Used chewing gum may play an important role in the development of biosensors. It turns out, according to the American Chemical Society (ACS), that many sensors used on and in the human body to detect various phenomena are stiff solids that...
by Alfred Poor | August 24, 2015 | Enabling Tech
Wearable Health Tech devices need power, and in almost all cases, this comes from stored electricity. Chemical batteries are still the technology of choice, but the search is on in earnest for better solutions. One enticing area of exploration is the supercapacitor...
