by Bruce Brown | October 20, 2017 | General News, Health
The focus on wearable health tech started with the hardware before shifting to the software, as is often the case with new technology. With personal computers in the early to mid 80s, for example, the key question for most people was what brand machine to buy, not...
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by Bruce Brown | October 6, 2017 | General News, Health
Change is hard. It’s difficult enough to change our own behavior, even when we know we’d be better off. Setting out to motivate, inspire, challenge, force, influence, or just plain old lead people to behaviors that encourage better health and higher...
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by Alfred Poor | September 27, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
We’ve been waiting for this news for a long, long time. “Smart garments” with incorporated sensors and wireless connections have enormous potential, but to date, they have almost exclusively been designed for fitness enthusiasts. The rare exceptions...
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by Bruce Brown | September 18, 2017 | General News, Health
According to the World Health Organization, 285 million people worldwide are visually impaired. Of that number 39 million are blind and 246 million have low vision. South Korean Dot, Inc. builds apps and electronic devices that display information in Braille for...
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by Bruce Brown | September 13, 2017 | General News, Health
The LCD pedometer was one of the earliest digital wearable fitness and health tech devices. It did one thing: It displayed a running count of steps… or what it interpreted as steps. Fitness wrist bands were next. With the onslaught of smartphones with Bluetooth,...
