![PinCh Wearable Challenge Winners Aid Vets [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2017/11/Pitt-Innovation-Challenge-group-2017.jpg?resize=599%2C275)
by Jim Ware | November 8, 2017 | General News, Health, Medical
One of the $125,000 winners in the 2017 Pitt Innovation Challenge uses good vibrations from a wearable device to help veterans control PTSD. Another wearable gives real-time visual feedback from prosthetic limbs to help lower-limb amputees learn to walk. In all, 13...
by Bruce Brown | July 13, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Prosthetics are usually used to help when someone loses a full or partial limb due to an accident or amputation. Artificial limbs are also prescribed for some people who cannot use an existing body part, which can occur following stroke or spinal injury....
![NHS Program Pilots Free 3D-Printed Prosthetic Hands [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2017/06/NHS-OpenBioincs-free-hand-pilot-video-600x275.jpg?resize=600%2C275)
by Bruce Brown | June 21, 2017 | General News, Health
It can be inspiring and instructive to observe an innovative company progress to its goal of solving a huge problem. In this case, the issue is the high cost of and long wait time for prosthetic hands. We’ve been following Open Bionics for three years and...
![Pectin Gives Artificial Skin Temperature Sensitivity [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2017/02/Caltech-Artificial-Skin-with-video-600-x277.png?resize=600%2C277)
by Bruce Brown | February 3, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
When we wonder if we’re running a fever, most of us take our temperature with a traditional or digital thermometer. More precise measurement can be hugely significant in detecting or predicting health issues in clinical settings. Studies at the Washington...
![Put A Sock On It – Adding Sensation to Existing Prosthetics [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/10/proCover-Sensory-Augmentation-of-Prosthetic-Limbs-with-video-600x275.jpg?resize=600%2C275)
by Bruce Brown | October 26, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
There’s growing interest in prostheses that simulate a sense of touch. With rare exceptions, prosthetic limbs are controlled to move as intended by the wearer but do not return any feedback through the sensation of touch. We recently wrote about brain...
