by Alfred Poor | September 14, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health
[Credit: BBC] Sometimes, finishing last is still a victory. Take the case of Claire Lomas who completed a half-marathon last weekend in England. She was 16-weeks pregnant at the time, but that’s not the newsworthy detail. She is also paralyzed below her chest,...
by Alfred Poor | January 7, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical
The wearables market is not only expanding like the Big Bang, but it also is rapidly maturing. One sign of this is the growing interest by manufacturers to apply their technology to new applications. After pursuing the low-hanging-fruit of the fitness market, some...
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by Alfred Poor | June 17, 2015 | Fitness, Health
The traditional way of making shoes is to stamp out shapes (creating lots of waste) and then assembling them into units of about a dozen different sizes. Forget finding a pair that fits you right; you’re happy to settle for the ones that fit the least badly. A...
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by Alfred Poor | June 8, 2015 | Medical
Human bi-pedal walking is nothing short of an engineering miracle. And running? Forget about it! Balance, the shifting of support from one part of the foot to another, and then to the other foot entirely: it’s all mind-bogglingly complex. And when people lose a...
