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by Bruce Brown | October 26, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
There’s growing interest in prostheses that simulate a sense of touch. With rare exceptions, prosthetic limbs are controlled to move as intended by the wearer but do not return any feedback through the sensation of touch. We recently wrote about brain...
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by Alfred Poor | March 7, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Long-time readers of Health Tech Insider know that we pay a lot of attention to the user interface for wearable devices. There’s no one right answer; touch, gesture, speech recognition, and even brain-hardware interfaces all have a part to play. Still,...
by Alfred Poor | November 23, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News
The IDTechEx conference was held in Santa Clara, CA November 18 and 19, 2015, covering a wide range of topics including wearable devices and related technology such as sensors, printed electronics, and energy harvesting. This is one of the many items of interest from...
by Alfred Poor | September 10, 2015 | Enabling Tech
You may be annoyed or amused by Siri, but get used to it; it may well be at the forefront of user interfaces for mobile devices. A new report from Tractica predicts that speech recognition will be in 82% of mobile electronic devices by 2020, nearly doubling its...
by Alfred Poor | July 17, 2014 | Enabling Tech, Health
People with severely impaired vision have difficulty when it comes to reading text. There are Braille versions of books, but very few titles are produced in that format. There are lots of adaptive technology products, including cameras that put a magnified image on a...
