by Alfred Poor | May 1, 2015 | Health
Now that the Apple Watch is here, we hope to see useful applications to support Health Tech devices. Beltone, a leading maker of digital hearing aids, has already release an app that they hope will help their customers. Digital hearing aids do much more than simply...
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by Alfred Poor | March 20, 2015 | Medical
The road to recovery for stroke victims and patients with spinal cord or brain injuries often includes the slow and difficult process of retraining the brain to perform simple and routine tasks that most of us take for granted, such as grasping and turning a doorknob....
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by Alfred Poor | January 29, 2015 | Enabling Tech
In my opinion, one of the largest challenges for interactive wearable devices of all sorts, but especially those for Health Tech applications, is the user interface. Touch screens are wonderful, but when you want to make a display as small as possible, it does not...
by Alfred Poor | January 16, 2015 | Health, Medical
Why is this man smiling? No, he has not been assimilated by the Borg. He just won a car race, simply by thinking about it. Last summer, I wrote about the Insight wireless headset from Emotiv. It is capable of sensing brain activity, and has many applications including...
by Alfred Poor | August 26, 2014 | Enabling Tech
Carbon is a miraculous element, and we continue to discover new forms and uses for it. Carbon nanotubes are of interest for their strength and ability to conduct electricity. “Buckyballs” (also known as fullerene) are soccer-ball shaped spheres of carbon...
