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by Bruce Brown | February 3, 2021 | Health
Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) introduced an astounding array of health tech innovations at CES 2021. ITRI’s iSmartWear combines washable conductive fabric with non-contact nanosecond pulse near-field sensing (NPNS) technology to...
by Bruce Brown | January 26, 2021 | General News, Health
Taiwan-based Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) made a big splash at the first all-digital CES 2021 this year. ITRI showed a variety of biosensing devices in CES virtual showrooms including iCardioGuard. iCardioGuard uses multi-sensing microwave and...
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by Bruce Brown | January 22, 2021 | Health
We first wrote about wearable baby monitoring sensors as early as 2014 when we covered Sproutling’s strap-on device that tracks heartbeat, breathing rate, and skin temperature. In 2015 we covered the Owlet, a sensor in a washable sock that measures heartbeat and...
