by Alfred Poor | June 29, 2015 | Fitness, Health, Medical
Last week, Imec and the Holst Centre jointly announced the development of a t-shirt that can monitor the wearer’s movement and heart activity. The key feature of this technology demonstration is that the shirt uses flexible smart fabric interconnects to gather...
by Alfred Poor | May 6, 2015 | Health
One of the clever features of the new Apple Watch is that it can monitor your heart rate. The back of the watch housing contains green and infrared LEDs, paired with light sensors. The infrared lights are used to measure your heart rate every 10 minutes, and if that...
by Alfred Poor | April 13, 2015 | Enabling Tech
Some wearable HealthTech devices simply record data and wirelessly transmit it to some other device for processing, analysis, and reporting. The person wearing the device has little need to interact directly with it, relying instead on the user interface of some other...
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by Alfred Poor | February 12, 2015 | Fitness, Health
Angel is a new entry into the fitness band market. If you’re going to be late to the party, you better bring something special. It remains to be seen whether or not Angel will be able to deliver on its potential. To start, the band has less; there’s no...
by Alfred Poor | January 9, 2015 | Health
Okay, I can stretch and make this about health and wellness. Happiness is an important part of being healthy, right? So if you have some wearable technology that keeps kids happy, that’s a good thing. But what the heck! I’ve included the Skechers Game...
