by Alfred Poor | August 3, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Implanted Health Tech devices tend to be relatively large items such as pacemakers or stents in coronary arteries, but as smart devices continue to get smaller and smaller, microscopic implants could perform many useful tasks from sensing biometric data to providing...
by Alfred Poor | July 29, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Radio waves are all around us all the time. In most parts of developed countries (and many under-developed regions as well), cell phone base towers provide a steady source of broadcast signals. Scientists refer to this as “ambient power” — power that...
by Alfred Poor | May 31, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
We’ve written about exoskeletons many times in the past, but mostly in the context of assistive devices that can help people walk and move better than they could on their own. However, as our past story about Rice Students who modified a knee brace to harvest...
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 18, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Cellulose. It’s one of the most common bio-materials on earth. It’s the substance that gives plants the ability to stand up, from blades of grass to might oaks. It’s the by-product of practically all plant food production in the world. And unless...
