Necklace Monitors Your Eating [video]

Necklace Monitors Your Eating [video]

by | March 12, 2015 | Health

Researchers at UCLA have developed WearSens, a necklace that is designed to monitor your eating to help you achieve health goals. The device places a sensor above your sternum that can detect what and how much you eat and drink. Testing on 30 subjects found that it...
Tiny Chip Sheds Light on Medical Tests [video]

Tiny Chip Sheds Light on Medical Tests [video]

by | December 24, 2014 | Enabling Tech

The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates characterized human physiology based on the four colors of the different “humors.” Modern medicine is still interested in color when diagnosing disease and other conditions. One of the recent revolutions is the...
Device Watches What You Eat

Device Watches What You Eat

by | 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...
Honeybees Wear Sensors, Too

Honeybees Wear Sensors, Too

by | October 21, 2014 | Health

Big Data solutions based on data from wearable devices are not just limited to humans. The technology has become so small and cost-effective that researchers in Australia have been using sensors to study honeybees. Bees are essential to the success of many of our...