New Company Launches Fabric Sensor Systems

New Company Launches Fabric Sensor Systems

BeBop Sensors is a new company that could play a role in a variety of wearable Health Tech devices and applications. A spin-off from a business that already has made more than a million sensors for musical applications, the company has launched its BeBop Wearable...
Stepsss Inserts to Help Runners [video]

Stepsss Inserts to Help Runners [video]

According to statistics cited by Stepsss, a new company in Bulgaria, 30 million Americans ran for exercise at least once a week in 2012. In Europe, the estimate for 2010 was 80 million. And they estimate that each runner spends an average of $100 a year on new shoes...
Fitness Watch: Phone Home!

Fitness Watch: Phone Home!

    Okay, I’m going to say what a lot of people are thinking: “smart” watches are pretty dumb. Sure, they may have a pretty face (or not so much) and a bunch of handy features. But like the Master of  “Thunderdome” they are...
Light Up Your Hands for Safety

Light Up Your Hands for Safety

  Sometimes the best ideas are really simple ones. And sometimes a good way to promote health is to prevent injury. Those two concepts more or less sum up the idea behind the Turn Signal Gloves from Zackees. The gloves have a strip of high-brightness LEDs sewn...