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by Alfred Poor | October 28, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health
Patients with a wide range of chronic conditions and diseases can find it challenging to interact with devices that rely on traditional interfaces such as keyboards or touch screens. Spoken commands can fit some needs, but another promising approach is the use of eye...
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by Alfred Poor | October 27, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News
Have you ever watched an earthworm crawl? It bunches up its segments in waves that ripple the length of its body. This series of contractions is called peristalsis, and is similar to the way that we move food down our throats. Researchers at Case Western...
by riddhi | August 3, 2015 | Fitness, Health, Medical
FocusMotion can turn any wearable into your own personal fitness trainer. The company now offers an SDK that will use the wearable device’s accelerometer, gyroscope, electromyography, and magnetometer to analyze a user’s movement and pace. A series of algorithms train...
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 | June 23, 2015 | Enabling Tech
One of the most important questions that just about any wearable Health Tech device can ask itself is “Where am I?” This simple question is key to so many important pieces of information: whether the wearer at motion or rest, how much distance has been...
