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by Bruce Brown | February 22, 2019 | Enabling Tech
Worldwide, patients have more than one million plus pacemakers and 200,000 plus defibrillators implanted each year. Current technology requires follow-up surgery to replace batteries as needed, typically every five to 10 years. In the past four years, we’ve...
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by Alfred Poor | September 27, 2018 | Enabling Tech, General News
Ultrasound is one of the most valuable imaging technologies available in healthcare. It does not need special rooms; a typical device can roll around on an equipment cart. It’s noninvasive, yet lets us peer deep inside living tissue. It relies on sound waves...
by Bruce Brown | January 29, 2018 | General News, Medical
Biosensors perform front-line duty with health tech wearables. We’ve written about enabling technologies that improve or extend the use of sensors in the past, including stretchable sensors, optical sensors, and even sensors fabricated from graphene putty....
by Bruce Brown | January 26, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Our vision changes with age. Even if we have perfect vision in our youth and young adulthood, by 45 the aging process typically starts to gradually degrade our eyes’ ability to focus accurately. The degradation is a gradual process which means there are two...
by Alfred Poor | September 15, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
“Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime. Give a man a pile of fish waste, and he can make electricity forever.” Okay, so maybe that’s not exactly how the old saying goes. But...
