by Alfred Poor | June 2, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Medical
A lot of exciting “wearable” Health Tech projects involved “wearing” a device on the inside of your body. In other words, you swallow it. But if it requires electrical power to operate, you need to find a safe way to provide this energy. As...
by Alfred Poor | March 3, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News, Health
The photo above may look a bit like a satellite surveillance photo of a water treatment plant, but it’s actually something quite different. What you see in the image are sensors that have been embroidered on the inside of a pair of running leggings, as part of a...
by Alfred Poor | January 26, 2016 | General News, Medical
I could go on a lot longer, but this will be my final post that is directly about what I saw at CES 2016. This entry is a bit unusual, because I learned something important about the pharmaceutical industry when I visited the booth of a display technology company....
by Alfred Poor | October 15, 2015 | Enabling Tech, General News
One of the gateways to low-cost wearable Health Tech devices is printed electronics. It’s not enough to just print electrodes and conductive substrates; we need to be able to print the logical components required to perform the digital electronic functions...
by Alfred Poor | October 12, 2015 | General News, Health, Medical
When a baby is born prematurely or with certain physical conditions, he or she may be unable to suck and swallow sufficiently to be fed by bottle or breast feeding. Making the transition from a feeding tube to normal oral feeding is typically a matter of trial and...