by Alfred Poor | August 15, 2014 | Fitness
Ready for your workout? Motivational tunes on your phone: check! Earbuds to listen to your tunes: check! Earbuds to monitor heart rate: what the what? It’s true, later this fall, you can leave your chest strap in the drawer along with all your other outgrown and...
by Alfred Poor | August 6, 2014 | Enabling Tech
I know, “Nano-Bio” sounds like it might be something Mork would say to Mindy, but it’s a serious keystone for just about all future Health Tech products. It refers to the field of nano-biotechnology, which is growing by leaps and bounds in the labs...
by Alfred Poor | July 31, 2014 | Enabling Tech
Energy harvesting collects power from ambient sources, such as heat, light, or motion, and converts it into another form of energy. In most cases, it produces electricity to do useful work or to be stored for use later. One missing piece, however, is computing...
by Alfred Poor | July 28, 2014 | Medical
“Heart failure” is a cardiac condition with a misleading name. It does not mean that the patient’s heart has failed; it simply indicates that the heart is not pumping a sufficient volume of blood to the lungs and body. This can result in other...
by Alfred Poor | July 28, 2014 | Health, Medical
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal describes “Baseline” which is a new project being undertaken by Google X, the secretive skunk works for Google technology research programs such as autonomous cars. According to the WSJ article, the ultimate goal...
