by Alfred Poor | July 28, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
“Give a kid a hammer, and the whole world looks like a nail.” It’s natural to try to solve problems using familiar tools, which explains why engineers turn to gears and pulleys and wheels and hinges when trying to create a robot that simulates human...
by Alfred Poor | June 1, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical
One of the recurring themes here at Health Tech Insider is the fact that when it comes to winning strategies for wearable devices, more functions beats fewer functions. We are starting to leave the “one-trick-pony” stage of the industry, and starting to...
by Alfred Poor | May 31, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
We’ve written about exoskeletons many times in the past, but mostly in the context of assistive devices that can help people walk and move better than they could on their own. However, as our past story about Rice Students who modified a knee brace to harvest...
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by Alfred Poor | May 5, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
The future of wearable Health Tech devices is closely tied to the development of new materials. As we try to link living organisms more closely to digital electronics, we will need all sorts of flexible materials that are bio-compatible and capable of performing...
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by Bruce Brown | April 21, 2016 | General News, Medical
We often write about curious, interesting, and impressive new Health Tech, but never have I been astounded as by the results of neural bypass surgery in a joint project by Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Neurological Institute and Battelle. The researchers...
