by Bruce Brown | August 12, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Imagine having the equivalents of a gatekeeper, a multilingual translator, an air traffic controller, and a bouncer in your nervous system. Now imagine that this team can modulate and redirect signals from the brain and the rest of your nervous system to other systems...
by Bruce Brown | August 11, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
An on-going program at Duke University, part of the Walk Again Project in Brazil, helps paralyzed patients regain partial feeling and control of their limbs. The program began in 2013. At the 2014 soccer World Cup in Brazil a patient from the project kicked off a game...
by Bruce Brown | August 10, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Wearable Health Tech requires power to work. The size, shape, and type of power can vary, but any form of action requires power. Most wearable devices use batteries, which come with their own challenges of space, weight, and recharging. If you’re going to wear a...
by Bruce Brown | August 9, 2016 | General News, Health
Try to imagine a wristband that sets out to be simultaneously part of and a link to a complete health ecosystem. Of course, you need to know what that even means. For GOQii founder and CEO Vishal Gondal, it means his company sees itself as a preventive health...
by Bruce Brown | August 8, 2016 | General News, Health
Medical experts disagree about the efficacy and even the safety of neurostimulation, where electrical currents are sent through a subject’s head. In spite of the controversy, or perhaps because of it, MIT Technology Review featured an article about Halo...