by Bruce Brown | December 5, 2016 | General News, Health
It’s tough to imagine wearing a kitchen sink on your wrist, but in the interest of acceptance of the smart watch as a viable platform, manufacturers are stuffing as many functions as they can into wrist-borne wearables. As a case in point, the Apple Watch Series...
by Bruce Brown | September 23, 2016 | General News, Health
Fatigue can have dangerous consequences. For many of us, coffee, sugar, exercise, and stretching come in handy to help us stay alert, productive, and focused. If I fall asleep at my desk, my productivity will lag. For anyone operating machinery, driving, piloting, or...
by Alfred Poor | September 13, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Don’t you love it when a new approach to a familiar solution challenges all your assumptions? That’s the case with a new design for wheels that gives wheelchair users a smoother and safer ride. The SoftWheel is an in-wheel suspension system. Most...
by Bruce Brown | August 29, 2016 | General News, Health
Sleep insufficiency hasn’t gone away, no matter how much we write about it. We’ve covered Health Tech that purports to help with sleep by controlling brainwaves, with smart earplugs, by cutting down on social media use, by reducing blue light exposure,...
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...