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by Alfred Poor | January 16, 2017 | Fitness, General News, Health
I often write about the need for wearable Health Tech devices to “disappear” into our lives. The more that users are required to make an active choice to use a device or fuss with maintenance tasks such as recharging, the more likely it is that they will...
by Alfred Poor | December 14, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Ask any Silicon Valley entrepreneur, and they’ll tell you that the most important factor in a technology product’s success is speed to market. You need to start revenues flowing as quickly as possible, and prevent competitors from beating you to the...
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by Bruce Brown | September 20, 2016 | General News, Health
Eyeglasses, the original Health Tech wearable, may soon take on additional roles. Today those of us who wear glasses do so to correct impaired vision and to protect our eyes. VSP Vision Care has designed eyeglass frames with embedded sensors that have immediate...
by Bruce Brown | January 15, 2016 | General News, Health
You might be appalled when you consider what you cannot do when you have severe hand tremors. Shaky hands make it difficult — if not impossible — to write legibly, type, use a mouse, insert a key in a lock, retrieve a card or cash to pay for goods, button...
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by Alfred Poor | December 3, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News
As we’ve written about here many times before, wearable Health Tech devices pose a new set of challenges when it comes to user interface controls. The small (or even invisible) devices are not well suited for the traditional computer controls of keyboard, touch...
