by Alfred Poor | July 4, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
One of the recurring themes here at Health Tech Insider is the need for new technology to provide user interfaces for wearable devices and other digital electronics. Touch screens and keyboards simply are not practical solutions as devices get smaller and smaller....
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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...
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by Alfred Poor | March 6, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Scientists have studied ways to interface a human brain with a robotic device. One goal is to let a person control a robotic prosthetic limb using his or her mind. It’s a complex problem that is difficult to solve. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and...
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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...
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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...
