by Alfred Poor | February 3, 2015 | Enabling Tech, Fitness, Health, Medical
The explosive expansion of the wearable device market — especially for Health Tech applications — has resulted in unprecedented growth in the demand for sensors. Already a key component of smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices, the need for more...
by Alfred Poor | January 15, 2015 | Health, Medical
Last summer, we wrote about the HealthPatch from Vital Connect. I got a chance to meet representatives from the company and see the product firsthand at the ShowStoppers press event at CES 2015. HealthPatch MD is a wearable sensor package that is not aimed at...
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by Alfred Poor | January 12, 2015 | Health, Medical
It can be important to track your vital signs for a variety of fitness, health, and medical reasons. Qardio has a set of three consumer products designed to cover most of the bases with medical grade data that you can share with your healthcare professionals. The...
by Alfred Poor | December 23, 2014 | Health
On the classic Star Trek TV series, the Enterprise crew carried “tricorders” that were multipurpose scanner and analysis devices. Dr. McCoy had a special version that could diagnose injuries and disease. Now a Chinese company has released a multi-function...
by Alfred Poor | December 18, 2014 | Health, Medical
Italian researchers sponsored by the Italian Space Agency and NASA have created a vest designed to monitor various biometric measures of astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The purpose is to gather data that researchers can use to try to...
