by Alfred Poor | June 22, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
As wearable Health Tech devices get smaller and smaller, how do you control them? Sure, they may send data wirelessly to an app running on a nearby smartphone, but there are circumstances where you might want to send a command or receive a notification from a device...
by Bruce Brown | October 10, 2016 | General News, Medical
When factory workers, machinists, or people in many other types of manual work lose a hand, the loss often results in a career change. According to graduate students at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin, in Germany alone, 15 people lose a hand every day on...
by Alfred Poor | September 15, 2015 | Enabling Tech
If you’re a frequent reader of Health Tech Insider, you may realize that we like to cover user interface technologies. This is because the tiny size of wearable Health Tech devices present significant challenges for the traditional user input strategies....
by Alfred Poor | August 26, 2015 | Enabling Tech
One of the challenges for wearable Health Tech devices is the user interface; how can you interact with and control the device if it’s too small for a touch panel or if you have physical limitations that prevent you from using traditional input technologies?...
by Alfred Poor | May 19, 2015 | Enabling Tech
One topic that we often mention here on Health Tech Insider is the question of how to control wearable devices. Their small size makes keyboards impractical, and even touch screens may be too limited to convey much information. One technology that could have broad...