by Bruce Brown | July 15, 2020 | Health
Despite pandemic-related supply chain issues, wearables shipments worldwide grew 29.7% year over year during the first quarter of 2020 according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker. Smartwatch and regular watch numbers declined, but wristband...
by Bruce Brown | February 4, 2020 | Enabling Tech
We’ve written about Valencell many times. The Raleigh, North Carolina-based company has a strong presence in biometric sensor development. To cite just a few instances, in 2016 we wrote about Valencell licensing hearable sensor patents to Samsung. We covered a...
by Bruce Brown | June 20, 2019 | Health
Planet Earth is bullish on wearables. The latest International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker outlines a continued upward trend year-over-year. Total wearable shipments during 2019’s first quarter increased by 55.2% from Q1...
by Bruce Brown | April 16, 2019 | Health
Nuheara continues its role as a leading force among hearables companies. We’ve seen several companies start and then back out of the hearables device space, including Doppler Labs and Bragi (although Bragi has shifted focus to software and hearables platform...
by Bruce Brown | April 5, 2019 | Health
On June 2, 1897, The New York Journal published a response to a query from its English correspondent to Samuel Clemens about the writer’s health. Clemens, over the signature of his pen name Mark Twain, replied in part, “The report of my death was an...