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by Bruce Brown | August 16, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Advances in on-skin devices to capture, store, and communicate data proliferated in the past two years. Health Tech Insider has covered temporary tattoos used to read blood alcohol content, check blood glucose levels, and monitor vital signs among other applications....
by Bruce Brown | August 10, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Wearable Health Tech requires power to work. The size, shape, and type of power can vary, but any form of action requires power. Most wearable devices use batteries, which come with their own challenges of space, weight, and recharging. If you’re going to wear a...
by Bruce Brown | May 16, 2016 | General News, Health
There are 94 million Americans at risk for lung cancer in the U.S., but only 1.6 million are scanned annually, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) statistics cited by a team of Harvard and MIT students. The team formed a startup called...
by Alfred Poor | April 21, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
We’ve written about MC10 multiple times in the past. The Massachusetts-based company has made a splash with its flexible, thin sensor devices that can stick to a person’s skin. It includes near-field communications (NFC) capabilities that let it exchange...
by Alfred Poor | December 24, 2015 | Enabling Tech, Fitness, General News, Health, Medical
Since we launched Health Tech Insider more than a year and a half ago, we have published more than 700 stories about wearable devices for health and medical applications, as well as coverage of new enabling technologies. As we near the end of the year, it is...
