by Alfred Poor | January 6, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
One of the most important features of any wearable Health Tech device is how the user interacts with it. For many devices, the most difficult task is developing a good means for the user to input commands. As a result, we’re always on the lookout for new...
![Control Wearables without Touching Them [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/11/AuraSense.jpg?resize=600%2C275)
by Alfred Poor | November 15, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Wearables face a vexing paradox. We want them to get smaller and smaller, yet smaller devices have less room available for buttons, touch pads, and other methods of controlling them. Solutions that work great for a desktop computer or tablet do not necessarily work...
by Alfred Poor | November 14, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
Patients with prosthetic limbs or spinal cord damage don’t have a sense of touch from their limbs to provide feedback about their position or movements. We’ve written about a number of different research projects working on this problem, and here is...
![Brain Implant Enables Sense of Touch for Robotic Arm [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/10/Brain-implant-enables-sense-of-touch-with-video-600x277.jpg?resize=600%2C277)
by Bruce Brown | October 17, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
The potential of a brain-computer interface (BCI) is at once exciting and amazing, if seemingly out of reach. The technology to hook up specific areas of the brain to control the motion of an external device promises freedom for many people with injured or missing...
![Gold Nanoparticles in Printed Touch Sensor [video]](https://i0.wp.com/healthtechinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2016/07/Feelit-sensor.jpg?resize=600%2C275)
by Alfred Poor | July 13, 2016 | Enabling Tech, General News
The sense of touch is one of the most sensitive and critical systems for a human body. The same system that can detect a puff of air can also work under hundreds of pounds of pressure. And we can distinguish between points as close together as a single millimeter. If...
