by Bruce Brown | May 26, 2020 | Health
My paternal grandfather was a farmer in Maine with a sixth-grade education. He wore copper bracelets because he swore they helped cut his arthritis pain. A 2013 study in the U.K. published in PLOS ONE found no “meaningful therapeutic effect,” other than...
![Spray-On Antenna for Wearables [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/Drexel-spray-on-antenna.jpg?resize=600%2C270&ssl=1)
by Alfred Poor | October 5, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
A key part of the Health Tech wearable revolution is wireless communications. We depend on WiFi and Bluetooth transmissions to connect wearable devices to smartphones, computers, and the Cloud, so that these devices are not tied down by a data cable. To transmit and...
by Alfred Poor | May 4, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
One of my recurring themes on Health Tech Insider is that wearable technology will have to “disappear” into our daily lives in order to become truly effective. One key development is “functional textiles”: cloth that can perform useful tasks in...
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by Alfred Poor | September 29, 2014 | Enabling Tech
Scientists from the Institute of Textiles and Clothing at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in China have developed a new way to create flexible and stretchable devices. As published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, they have developed computerized...
by Alfred Poor | August 8, 2014 | Enabling Tech
Intel is expanding its plans for the wearable Health Tech market. At the Code Conference this spring, the company showed a prototype shirt that — coupled with a small plug-in Edison-powered processing unit — can record and transmit heart rate and other...
