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by Alfred Poor | January 23, 2015 | Enabling Tech
One of my favorite parts about a big trade show like CES 2015 is that you get to “discover” all sorts of new products and technology that you might not otherwise hear about. That is exactly the case with Reach Bionics, a company that is developing a new...
by Alfred Poor | January 14, 2015 | Medical
Last summer, we covered the news that the ReWalk exoskeleton received FDA approval for personal use in the United States. This year, at the ShowStoppers press event at CES 2015, I got the opportunity to see the product in person, and chat with some of the folks from...
by Alfred Poor | October 2, 2014 | Medical
Researchers at Swiss Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) have been working on developing new ways to help paralyzed patients walk again. Humans who have been paralyzed for a long tome have been able to move their legs in response to electrical stimulation...
by Alfred Poor | August 11, 2014 | Medical
Royal Philips and Accenture have joined forces to develop a proof of concept platform designed to give ALS patients and others with neurodegenerative diseases a means to communicate and control their environment, in spite of their paralysis. In a press release issued...
