Wireless Thermometer Tracks Fever

Wireless Thermometer Tracks Fever

by | December 1, 2014 | Health, Medical

Here comes flu season. Even a common cold can cause a person to run a fever, which can cause aches and feeling just plain lousy. Traditionally, you would take a patient’s temperature every few hours, and adjust medication and other treatments as required. But it...
Train Your Brain to Relax [video]

Train Your Brain to Relax [video]

by | November 28, 2014 | Health

When I was in college in the early 70s, biofeedback was a hot topic. Along with Transcendental Meditation, experimenters were curious about using EEG readings to train users to reach a relaxed state. Wearable technology has made such devices more affordable, such as...
Tele-Medicine for Your Skin [video]

Tele-Medicine for Your Skin [video]

by | November 28, 2014 | Medical

How many times have you looked at something on your skin — or on someone close to you — and thought “Maybe I should get that looked at.” Now there’s an app for that. First Derm is a smartphone app that lets you take a photo of your skin...
IDTechEx: Sensors Woven into Washable Fabric [video]

IDTechEx: Sensors Woven into Washable Fabric [video]

by | November 24, 2014 | Fitness

This is a fitness product, and as such, I wouldn’t usually cover it here in Health Tech Insider. But this shirt from OMsignal is special because its sensors are woven directly into the fabric of the clothing. Other systems print sensors onto the fabric, or...
IDTechEx: Wearable Artificial Pancreas [video]

IDTechEx: Wearable Artificial Pancreas [video]

by | November 21, 2014 | Medical

Pancreum was one of the many wearable Health Tech companies that made presentations at the IDTechEx conference this week in Santa Clara, California. The company is focused on remote patient monitoring and similar applications. According to Guilherme de Paul, founder...