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by Bruce Brown | October 19, 2016 | General News, Health
Sleep monitoring can reveal much more information about our health and physical condition than we might suspect. A doctor’s typical questions, “How many hours do you sleep each night?” and “How often do you get up to go to the bathroom in the...
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by Bruce Brown | September 30, 2016 | General News, Health
Most of us take mobile devices for granted, but they can be too difficult to use by people who are not able to manage the interfaces and physical controls. Elderly people and people disabled by various diseases or physical conditions may have difficulty...
by Alfred Poor | September 21, 2016 | General News, Health, Medical
It may seem obvious, but you have to know your market when you’re designing a new product or service. This is especially true if you’re creating a consumer electronics device, or if you want to create something for the elderly to use. And if you’re...
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by Alfred Poor | January 26, 2015 | Health
Not all wearable Health Tech devices need to have digital electronics. Case in point: the Quikiks shoes. Think about this for a moment. When people want to describe someone as being incredibly out of shape, they often say something like “He can’t even bend...
by Alfred Poor | September 24, 2014 | Enabling Tech
The potential benefits of wearable Health Tech devices and the data that they can produce are enticing. The idea of some intelligent device communicating valuable health and medical data to users and their healthcare professionals has a lot of appeal. The devil is in...
