by Bruce Brown | September 20, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Health and medical technology developments comprise the majority of our coverage on Health Tech Insider, especially for wearable and mobile devices. We also write about wearable tech that protects, alerts, or enhances in the workplace and everyday life. For example,...
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by Bruce Brown | October 20, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
The ability to grasp, pick up, and carry not only distinguishes us from most other species, but it also represents a major measure of our quality of life. Hand grip has relevance to work, leisure, and daily living. According to Swedish Medical...
by riddhi | August 28, 2015 | Enabling Tech
The Department of Defense (DoD) will partner with the private sector and academia to boost progress in new frontiers of manufacturing. The Obama administration announced that it will award funds to create a Manufacturing Innovation Institute for Flexible Hybrid...
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by Alfred Poor | June 26, 2015 | Enabling Tech
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, lithium-ion batteries are possibly the worst of all battery technologies, except for all others that have been tried. They hold a lot of electricity in a small space, but they are expensive to make and are responsible for occasionally...
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by Alfred Poor | December 16, 2014 | Enabling Tech
One of the most amazing forms of wearable technology is the robotic prosthetic limb. This technology promises to restore normal use of hands and legs to those who have lost them due to injury or disease. One of the major challenges, however, is to get signals from...
