by Bruce Brown | March 15, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
In an increasingly connected world, sometimes you have to take power where you find it. Thin film batteries may address wearable concerns of bulkiness, but what about times when you’re off the grid and still need power? That’s where Microbial Fuel Cells...
by Alfred Poor | February 24, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Wearable devices for Health Tech applications generally rely on digital electronic sensors to gather data about the wearer. This data than gets processed and reported in ways that ideally will monitor the subject’s health and provide indications of what...
by Alfred Poor | February 19, 2016 | General News, Health
We first covered the Pip a little over a year ago. The little pointed puck is designed to measure “electrodermal activity” as a measure of the subject’s stress level, and a suite of smartphone apps provide exercises and games to help you relax. In...
by Alfred Poor | February 17, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Wearable sensors and related devices are at the heart of the Health Tech revolution, but the question of how to power these systems remains without an optimal answer. One of the attractive solutions is to harvest energy from the surrounding environment to eliminate...
by Alfred Poor | February 3, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
According to some experts in the field, the wearable market ultimately will merge with the clothing industry. Our clothes will be “smart” and connected, and will have sensors built in so that we don’t need to bother with separate devices. Is this...