by Alfred Poor | November 13, 2015 | General News, Medical
When I hear “nanotechnology,” I tend to think of microscopic components that have been designed and fabricated by people for some purpose or another. Scientists at the University of South Australia have taken a different approach to engineering their...
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by Alfred Poor | April 17, 2015 | Medical
In a Forbes article, Kevin Hrusovsky, CEO of Quanterix is quoted making a distinction between “healthcare” and “sick care.” His point is that in most cases, we wait until a patient gets sick — showing symptoms — and then test to...
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by Alfred Poor | January 12, 2015 | Health, Medical
Blood pressure, blood oxygen, body temperature, heart rate: these are important physiological measures that are helpful in tracking your health. In most cases, you need multiple devices to take these readings, but Scanadu believes that they can do it all with a simple...
by Alfred Poor | July 8, 2014 | Enabling Tech, Fitness, Health
Metaio is a German company that specializes in augmented reality (AR). They just published the video above that demonstrates some intriguing ways to apply AR to health and fitness functions for wearable technology such as smartwatches. In the video, the wearer uses...
