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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 | January 5, 2015 | Health
For the record, superlatives in marketing materials instantly trigger my Skept-o-Meter. It’s rare that a company can truly lay claim to being “first” or “best” or “only.” So I almost stopped reading the press release about the...
by Alfred Poor | November 14, 2014 | Health, Medical
Calories consumed minus calories burned. If the result is greater than zero, you will probably gain weight. If the result is less than zero, then you’ll probably shed pounds. Simple enough, but difficult to track. Fitness bands and other devices can do a pretty...
by Alfred Poor | July 18, 2014 | Enabling Tech, Health, Medical
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers — better known as the IEEE — is one of the largest technology standards groups in the world. They are involved in everything from cybersecurity to computer interfaces. And they are heavily involved in...
by Alfred Poor | July 8, 2014 | Enabling Tech, Fitness, Health
Metaio is a German company that specializes in augmented reality (AR). They just published the video above that demonstrates some intriguing ways to apply AR to health and fitness functions for wearable technology such as smartwatches. In the video, the wearer uses...
