by Bruce Brown | July 8, 2016 | General News, Health
Between simple sound amplifiers and complex medically-prescribed hearing aids, there’s a wide space for hearing assistance devices. These devices can have different purposes including filtering unwanted sound, enabling phone conversations in noisy rooms...
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by Alfred Poor | May 20, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Consider hair. It keeps our heads warm (though this is less effective for some of us who are follicly-challenged). It can reduce friction between surfaces. But hairs do much more than that. They keep us from falling over, due to the tiny cilia in the inner ear that...
by Alfred Poor | March 9, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
The future of wearable Health Tech devices depends on their ability to get under our skin. Implants are the shortest distance to reliable, always-on biometric sensing and other interactive tasks. One important barrier to this future is the size of the device. Larger...
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by Bruce Brown | March 1, 2016 | General News, Health
The importance of getting a good night’s sleep for human health and happiness is stressed by both academia and the popular press. For some of us, however, sleep can be elusive. Noise — both familiar and unfamiliar — is a common sleep-robbing culprit....
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by Bruce Brown | November 20, 2015 | General News, Health
In their later years, my mother suffered from severe macular degeneration and my father-in-law lost most of his vision due to diabetes. As two of an estimated 280 million people in the world with impaired vision from macular degeneration, degenerative myopia,...
