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 | April 15, 2016 | General News, Medical
About 5 million people in the U.S. have type 2 diabetes, but none of them can use the wearable PAQ insulin infusion device from CeQur. Yet. That’s because the device has not yet received FDA clearance for use in the U.S., though it has received CE approval in...
by Alfred Poor | June 29, 2015 | Fitness, Health, Medical
Last week, Imec and the Holst Centre jointly announced the development of a t-shirt that can monitor the wearer’s movement and heart activity. The key feature of this technology demonstration is that the shirt uses flexible smart fabric interconnects to gather...
by Alfred Poor | June 26, 2015 | Enabling Tech
To paraphrase Winston Churchill, lithium-ion batteries are possibly the worst of all battery technologies, except for all others that have been tried. They hold a lot of electricity in a small space, but they are expensive to make and are responsible for occasionally...
by Alfred Poor | December 8, 2014 | Fitness, Health, Medical
Omar Dunham is the CEO of Changing Technologies, a service that provides on-demand 3D printing of devices for retail customers. They can access designs stored in the site’s catalog of products, and place orders to have them printed and shipped. Dunham envisions...