by Alfred Poor | August 20, 2019 | General News, Health
We’ve written about sweat sensors many times in the past. Researchers have good reasons to search for biometric data from sweat; the material is readily available and does not require invasive procedures to acquire. In addition to the familiar salts, sweat...
by Bruce Brown | March 28, 2018 | General News, Health
AliveCor’s KardiaBand scored twice in recent clinical studies. It’s uncommon for us to cover the same product twice in the same year, let alone the same calendar quarter. Here’s one of those exceptions that prove the rule. We wrote about the afib...
by Alfred Poor | April 21, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
The eyes may be the window to the soul, but a substance as prosaic as sweat could provide a way to measure a wide range of hidden activities going on in your body. We tend to think of sweat as salty water (if we think about it at all), but the fact is that it is a...
by Alfred Poor | June 1, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical
One of the recurring themes here at Health Tech Insider is the fact that when it comes to winning strategies for wearable devices, more functions beats fewer functions. We are starting to leave the “one-trick-pony” stage of the industry, and starting to...
by Bruce Brown | January 28, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
The range of sensors used in Health Tech continues to broaden in the rapidly expanding Internet of Things. We already know measuring various elements in blood and reading electrical waves can tell a lot about individual health, but while still vital, those are old...