by Alfred Poor | April 21, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
We’ve written about MC10 multiple times in the past. The Massachusetts-based company has made a splash with its flexible, thin sensor devices that can stick to a person’s skin. It includes near-field communications (NFC) capabilities that let it exchange...
by Alfred Poor | March 17, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical
The problems involved in keeping a heart disease patient alive are complex and interconnected. Keeping a heart beating can require muscular, electrical, and medicinal treatments. A pacemaker by itself is not enough, nor are pharmaceuticals. Researchers at Tel Aviv...
![Stretchable “Skin” Display Senses Touch [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/03/Cornell-skin.jpg?resize=600%2C275)
by Alfred Poor | March 14, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
We are constantly moving toward technology that is more like us, whether it’s the ability to “understand” and win a complex game like Go, or to create a humanoid device to interact with us as a caregiver or companion. And we will need to move beyond...
by Alfred Poor | March 9, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
The future of wearable Health Tech devices depends on their ability to get under our skin. Implants are the shortest distance to reliable, always-on biometric sensing and other interactive tasks. One important barrier to this future is the size of the device. Larger...
![Hybrid Conductor Stretches to 4 Times Its Size [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/03/EPFL-flexible-conductors.jpg?resize=600%2C275)
by Alfred Poor | March 8, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
What are you looking at in the photo above? It’s a sheet of plastic with electrical conductors on its surface. These traces connect LEDs to a power source, and you can see that the electricity is reaching them because they are glowing green. So far, so what?...
