by Alfred Poor | January 14, 2015 | Medical
Last summer, we covered the news that the ReWalk exoskeleton received FDA approval for personal use in the United States. This year, at the ShowStoppers press event at CES 2015, I got the opportunity to see the product in person, and chat with some of the folks from...
by Alfred Poor | October 27, 2014 | Enabling Tech
BeBop Sensors is a new company that could play a role in a variety of wearable Health Tech devices and applications. A spin-off from a business that already has made more than a million sensors for musical applications, the company has launched its BeBop Wearable...
by Alfred Poor | October 17, 2014 | Enabling Tech
According to the market tracking firm IHS Technology, worldwide shipments of sensors and related components for wearable devices is forecast to grow from 67 million units last year to 466 million units in 2019. This nearly seven-fold increase in demand is driven by...
by Alfred Poor | September 12, 2014 | Medical
More than 6 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease, which is just one of many chronic movement disorders. The tremors and other uncontrolled movements can be treated using the medicine levodopa, which increases the amount of...
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by Alfred Poor | September 5, 2014 | Enabling Tech
One of the most important tasks for most wearable Health Tech devices is to know where it is. Thanks to the demands of the smartphone market, the components required to keep track of position and motion keep getting smaller and costing less. And perhaps most...
