by Alfred Poor | March 6, 2018 | General News, Medical
The promise of Big Data is that if you can aggregate enough information, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms can sift through it and find correlations that a human mind might never find in a lifetime of searching. We’ve covered how Google’s AI labs...
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by Kimberly Houston | January 30, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Most of us go through the day without stopping to think about the remarkable functionality our limbs provide, and the many tasks they allow us to do. When someone loses a limb due to injury or illness, a prosthetic limb can restore some of the capabilities lost, but...
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by Bruce Brown | November 17, 2017 | General News, Health
Way back in the early history of wearable Health Tech, we wrote about the original Spire. That was in mid-2014 when battery-operated devices with integrated biometric sensors that transmit data via Bluetooth to smartphone apps for health purposes were a new thing....
by Bruce Brown | October 27, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Communications is much more than just words. A classic UCLA study by (now) Professor Emeritus Albert Mehrabian argued only “7% of message relating to feelings and attitudes is in the words that are spoken.” The remaining 93% of the message is derived from...
by Bruce Brown | October 20, 2017 | General News, Health
The focus on wearable health tech started with the hardware before shifting to the software, as is often the case with new technology. With personal computers in the early to mid 80s, for example, the key question for most people was what brand machine to buy, not...
