by Alfred Poor | September 10, 2015 | Enabling Tech
You may be annoyed or amused by Siri, but get used to it; it may well be at the forefront of user interfaces for mobile devices. A new report from Tractica predicts that speech recognition will be in 82% of mobile electronic devices by 2020, nearly doubling its...
by Alfred Poor | July 9, 2015 | Enabling Tech
There’s a good reason why TVs and computer monitors and other flat panel displays are rectangular; the matrix of pixels is driven as a series of rows and columns. This makes it very difficult to make a round display, but that’s the form factor that has...
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by Alfred Poor | April 22, 2015 | Enabling Tech
We’ve often discussed how important the user interface for wearable Health Tech devices is to their success, and how complex the problem is to come up with a good solution (such as here and here). Researchers at the famous MIT Media Labs have come up with a...
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by Alfred Poor | March 16, 2015 | Health, Medical
In the 19th Century, communication technology took a great leap forward with the telegraph, that let people “write” over great distances. Early in the last century, the telephone revolutionized communications again by letting people talk and listen to each...
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by Alfred Poor | January 29, 2015 | Enabling Tech
In my opinion, one of the largest challenges for interactive wearable devices of all sorts, but especially those for Health Tech applications, is the user interface. Touch screens are wonderful, but when you want to make a display as small as possible, it does not...
