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by Bruce Brown | August 23, 2021 | Enabling Tech
At Health Tech Insider, we’re suckers for a good wearable energy-harvesting technology. If you can harvest sufficient electricity from your clothing to power wearable devices, you don’t need to replace or recharge batteries. In early 2015, Alfred Poor...
by Bruce Brown | February 25, 2019 | Health
What if we could drop the need for layered clothing to add or shed when the air temperature changes? We write fairly often about developments in smart clothing with embedded biometric sensors in which the garments play a literally supporting role as transport...
by Alfred Poor | August 25, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Don’t have power for your wearable device? Don’t sweat it! Or if a new research product is successful, sweat may be all you need to get the electricity you want. Scientists at the University of California San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering have...
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by Bruce Brown | December 8, 2016 | General News, Health
The tsunami of Health Tech device development keeps growing. In spite of apparent waning market interest in fitness wearables, research continues at a rapid pace by university, hospital, private industry, and government researchers. Digital health development is...
by Bruce Brown | October 12, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Strapping a wristband, hanging a lanyard, or putting on a pin or headwear to measure monitor health metrics may sound like no big deal. But remembering and the extra effort required to add a wearable to one’s daily outfit are real-life compliance obstacles. What...
