by Alfred Poor | October 8, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News
One particularly knotty problem for wearables is the question of how to make a useful display. Most companies follow the same model that has been used for wristwatches for more than 100 years; take a rigid display and attach it to a flexible band so that it can be...
by riddhi | September 3, 2015 | Health, Medical
Over time, we have identified a number of different diseases which result in diminishing to no vision. These conditions include mascular degeneration (caused by the deterioration of the central portion of the retina, the inside back layer of the eye that records the...
by Alfred Poor | July 2, 2015 | Enabling Tech
This picture may not be all that compelling at first glance. It looks like someone has a wire with some white stuff on it. Or maybe the wire is glowing from electricity running through it. Here’s the scoop; that white section is indeed emitting light, but...
by Alfred Poor | June 1, 2015 | Enabling Tech
By definition, wearable Health Tech devices need to be small, lightweight, and power efficient. If they are to have a display — like a smartwatch — then the panel must also meet these characteristics. Organic light-emitting displays, or OLEDs, are the new...
by Alfred Poor | April 13, 2015 | Enabling Tech
Some wearable HealthTech devices simply record data and wirelessly transmit it to some other device for processing, analysis, and reporting. The person wearing the device has little need to interact directly with it, relying instead on the user interface of some other...