by Bruce Brown | November 7, 2016 | General News, Medical
Movement, balance, gait, walking speed, energy expenditure, and endurance all factor in lower limb prosthetics. We’ve previously covered a bionic leg that produces normal gait by controlling ankle-foot movement. Endolite’s Linx goes further with a fully...
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 | June 2, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical
A lot of exciting “wearable” Health Tech projects involved “wearing” a device on the inside of your body. In other words, you swallow it. But if it requires electrical power to operate, you need to find a safe way to provide this energy. As...
by Alfred Poor | May 11, 2016 | Fitness, General News, Health
When it comes to getting healthy, one thing that almost all of us can do is lose a little extra weight. And lots of companies are ready to offer wearable Health Tech devices that are intended to help make this easier for you. Some of them are a bit unusual, such as...