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by Alfred Poor | August 12, 2015 | Health
It’s the stuff of new parent nightmares; you lock your car in the shopping mall parking lot and walk off, leaving your infant strapped into a baby seat in the back of your car. In the summer, this could even be a life-threatening situation. Fortunately, Walmart...
by Alfred Poor | July 14, 2015 | Health, Medical
The Law of Unintended Consequences lurks behind any new technology, sometimes revealing unforeseen benefits but more often resulting in some negative outcome. Wearable Health Tech devices are not immune to this effect, and given the nature of their missions, the...
by Alfred Poor | July 2, 2015 | Enabling Tech
If wearable Health Tech devices are to be successful, they are going to have to disappear into our lives. If they require that we plug them in (or place them on a charging station) every night or week or month, it will give people one more reason to not use them. This...
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by Alfred Poor | June 18, 2015 | Enabling Tech
The dream system for monitoring a person’s biometric data is a network of always-on sensors distributed around the body, generating all sorts of useful data ranging from vital signs to the levels of different compounds in the blood or tissues. One of the keys to...
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by Alfred Poor | January 14, 2015 | Fitness, Health
Sure, that fitness band of yours can tell you (approximately) how many steps you’ve taken, but can it do anything about your cold feet? I didn’t think so. Glagla is a French company that has created the Digitsole, a smart shoe insert that does more than...
