by Alfred Poor | July 4, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
One of the recurring themes here at Health Tech Insider is the need for new technology to provide user interfaces for wearable devices and other digital electronics. Touch screens and keyboards simply are not practical solutions as devices get smaller and smaller....
by Alfred Poor | March 6, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Scientists have studied ways to interface a human brain with a robotic device. One goal is to let a person control a robotic prosthetic limb using his or her mind. It’s a complex problem that is difficult to solve. Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and...
by Alfred Poor | February 10, 2016 | General News, Health
Wearable technology comes in a variety of shapes, sizes, and levels of complexity. Perhaps the most complex are the powered prosthetic limbs that aim to replace the functions of human hands. We’ve written about other projects (such as the open-source HACKberry...